Jack Watts
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Hon. Jack Thomas Watts (1909 – 1970) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party and the twentyseventh Minister of Finance, from November 1954 to 12 December 1957, when he retired.
He was the Member of Parliament for Riccarton 1943-46, then St Albans 1946-57, then Fendalton 1957-60. He was Minister of Health and Minister of Social Security in the Holland Ministry (1949-54), then Minister of Finance and Minister in Charge of the Census and Statistics Department in the next Holland Ministry (1954-57) and in the first Holyoake Ministry of 1957 (plus Minister in Charge of the Inland Revenue Department).