Arthur Kinsella

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Arthur Ellis Kinsella QSO (19182004) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party, and was a cabinet minister.

Kinsella was Minister of Broadcasting from 1960 to 1963 in the Second National Government, overseeing the introduction of Television to New Zealand. He was Postmaster-General from 1961 to 1963 and was Minister of Education from 1963 to 1969.

He represented the rural electorate of Hauraki from 1954 to 1969, when he retired.

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  • The First 50 Years: A History of the New Zealand National Party by Barry Gustafson (1986, Reed Methuen, Auckland; has biographical appendix of National MPs) ISBN 0474001776
  • New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
  • NZ Herald obituary