Oswald James Hawken (1870–1957) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand, and was a cabinet minister 1926–1928 in the Reform Government. He was elected to the

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electorate in the 1919 general election, but was defeated in

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. In 1935, he was awarded the

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