Horace Edgar Herring

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Horace Edgar Herring (1884 - 1962) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for Mid-Canterbury.

[edit] Member of Parliament

Horace Herring represented the Mid-Canterbury electorate between 1935 and 1938 (Wood, p.92 & Wilson, p.205).

He was a supporter of John A. Lee and stood as a Democratic Labour Party candidate at the Christchurch East by-election in 1943 which was won by Mabel Howard. Horace Herring received a very creditable 2,578 votes, 26.7% of the total cast (Taylor, p.165).

Herring was awarded the Coronation Medal in 1937 for services to New Zealand.

He was Mayor of Levin from 1953 to 1956.

[edit] Further Reading

  • 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)
  • The New Zealand Parliamentary Record: 1840-1984 by J.O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
  • Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament Edited by G.A. Wood (1996, Otago University Press, Dunedin)


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