Sidney Walter Smith JP (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

Smith was born in Ashburton in 1893. He received his education at Algin Primary and Ashburton High Schools. He served in the NZEF in France and Egypt in World War I. He then farmed at Opuawhanga and

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and went into business. He was on several local boards, acting as a member of the Bay of Islands County Council and the Bay of Islands Hospital Board, and as Chairman of the Bay of Islands Dairy Company. He married Dorothy Alice Blundell in 1924. He represented the Bay of Islands electorate from

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to 1946, and the renamed Hobson electorate from

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to 1960 when he retired. Under

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, he was Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Minister of Agriculture and of Marketing (1949–1954). In the second Holland Ministry, he was

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and Minister of Forests (1954–1957). Under

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in 1957, he continued with the Internal Affairs and Forestry portfolios, and was also appointed Minister of Agriculture. After his retirement from Parliament in 1960, he was deputy chairman of the

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Division of the National Party from 1963 to 1965. He also served on the board of the

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and was President when he retired in 1975. He died in Auckland in 1981 aged 88, 23 days before the death of his wife.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Sidney Walter 1893 births 1981 deaths New Zealand National Party MPs New Zealand military personnel of World War I Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates Members of the Cabinet of New Zealand 20th-century New Zealand politicians