Bill Lambert (politician)
Brian Spencer George Lambert (22 November 1930 – 22 December 2019), commonly known as Bill Lambert, was a New Zealand politician of the New Zealand National Party, National Party. Biography Lambert was born in 1930, the son of Basil Lambert. He received his education at Silverstream College. He worked as a journalist for ''The Dominion (Wellington), The Dominion'' and was afterwards public relations officer for Mobil Oil (1956–1960). He worked as public relations manager for Feltex Carpets (1961–1966), and was then a ministerial press officer (1966–1969). He then went into private business and was manager for Forum PR Ltd (1969–1972), and manager for Extra Media Services (1972–1975) in Wellington. On 16 November 1957, he married June, the daughter of Hector Hailwood. They had four sons. He represented the Hutt Valley electorate of Western Hutt from 1975 New Zealand general election, 1975 to 1978, when he was defeated by New Zealand Labour Party, Labour's John Terr ...
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New Zealand National Party
The New Zealand National Party ( mi, Rōpū Nāhinara o Aotearoa), shortened to National () or the Nats, is a centre-right political party in New Zealand. It is one of two major parties that dominate contemporary New Zealand politics, alongside its traditional rival, the New Zealand Labour Party, Labour Party. National formed in 1936 through amalgamation of conservative and Liberalism, liberal parties, Reform Party (New Zealand), Reform and United Party (New Zealand), United respectively, and subsequently became New Zealand's second-oldest extant political party. National's predecessors had previously formed United–Reform Coalition, a coalition against the growing labour movement. National has governed for five periods during the 20th and 21st centuries, and has spent more List of government formations of New Zealand, time in government than any other New Zealand party. After the 1949 New Zealand general election, 1949 general election, Sidney Holland became the first Prime M ...
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