Herbert Evelyn Curtis (1818–1890) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in

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, New Zealand. He represented the Motueka and Massacre Bay electorate from to 1860, then the

Motueka Motueka is a town in the South Island of New Zealand, close to the mouth of the Motueka River on the western shore of Tasman Bay / Te Tai-o-Aorere. It is the second largest in the Tasman Region, with a population of as of The surrounding dis ...

electorate from

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to 1866, when he retired.

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