Frank Langstone

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Frank Langstone (1881 – 1969) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament, Cabinet Minister and High Commissioner to Canada.

[edit] Member of Parliament

Frank Langstone represented the Waimarino electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives between 1922-25 and 1928-1946. He then held the Roskill seat from 1946 to 1949. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Māori Affairs from 1940 to 1942. In 1942 he became High Commissioner to Canada. Langstone was also President of the New Zealand Labour Party from 1933 to 1934.

In 1949 Frank Langstone resigned from the Labour Party over the issue of peacetime conscription. Later that year he stood in the Roskill seat as an Independent but was defeated. In 1957 and 1960 he stood for Social Credit in Roskill.

[edit] Further reading

• The 1949 General Election by S.E. Fraser (1967, MA Thesis-University of Otago, Dunedin)
• The Last Years of the First Labour Government 1945-1949 by R. McLennan (1963, MA Thesis-University of Auckland, Auckland)
• The Expulsion of John A. Lee and its Effects on the Development of the Labour Party by B.S. Taylor (1970, MA Thesis-University of Canterbury, Christchurch)