Sidney Walter Smith

He is not to be confused with Sydney George Smith, National MP for New Plymouth.
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
19431946 27th Bay of Islands National
19461949 28th Hobson National
19491951 29th Hobson National
19511954 30th Hobson National
19541957 31st Hobson National
19571960 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. 1 2 3 Gustafson 1986, p. 343.
  2. Wilson 1985, p. 235.
  3. Wilson 1985, pp. 86–88.

References

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New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by
Charles Wallace Boswell
Member of Parliament for Bay of Islands
19431946
In abeyance
Title next held by
Neill Austin
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