Sidney Walter Smith

Sidney Walter Smith in 1950

Sidney Walter Smith (20 January 1893 – 26 August 1981) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary and later a Minister.

Biography

Parliament of New Zealand
Years	Term	Electorate		Party
1943–1946	27th	Bay of Islands		National
1946–1949	28th	Hobson		National
1949–1951	29th	Hobson		National
1951–1954	30th	Hobson		National
1954–1957	31st	Hobson		National
1957–1960	32nd	Hobson		National

Smith was born in 1893. He received his education at Algin Primary and Ashburton High Schools. He served in the NZEF in France in World War I. He then farmed at Opuowhanga, went into business and was on several local boards.^[1]

He represented the Bay of Islands electorate from 1943 to 1946, and the renamed Hobson electorate from 1946 to 1960 when he retired.^[2] Under Sidney Holland, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Minister of Agriculture and of Marketing (1949–1954). In the second Holland Ministry, he was Minister of Internal Affairs and Minister of Forests (1954–1957). Under Keith Holyoake in 1957, he continued with the Internal Affairs and Forestry portfolios, and was also appointed Minister of Agriculture.^[3]

After his retirement from Parliament, he was deputy chairman of the Auckland Division of the National Party from 1963 to 1965.^[1]

He died in Auckland in 1981.^[1]

Notes

1. Gustafson 1986, p. 343.
2. Wilson 1985, p. 235.
3. Wilson 1985, pp. 86–88.

References

• Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
• Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.