Horace Edgar Herring (1884–9 January 1962) was a New Zealand

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for

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. Born in England and a mechanical engineer and draughtsman, he came to New Zealand in 1909.

Member of Parliament

Horace Herring represented the Mid-Canterbury electorate for the Labour Party between 1935 and 1938. He was a supporter of

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and stood as a Democratic Labour Party candidate at the

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, which was won by

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. Horace Herring received a very creditable 2,578 votes; 26.7% of the total cast. Labour MP

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, described Herring as "a character only

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could have invented". (See also a description of his Maiden Speech in Parliament.) Herring was awarded the Coronation Medal in 1937 for services to New Zealand. He was Mayor of Levin from 1953 to 1956.

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