Sidney Walter Smith
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He is not to be confused with Sydney George Smith, National MP for New Plymouth.
Sidney Walter Smith (20 January 1893 – 1981) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He was a Partiamentary Undersecretary.
He represented the Bay of Islands electorate from 1943 to 1946, and the renamed Hobson electorate from 1946 to 1960 when he retired.
He served in the NZEF in France in World War I. He then farmed, went into business and was on several local Boards.
He died in Auckland, and had been Deputy Chairman of the party's Auckland Division 1963-65.
[edit] References
- New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, 4th edition, Government Printer, Wellington)
- The First 50 Years: A History of the New Zealand National Party by Barry Gustafson (1986, Reed Methuen, Auckland; biographical appendix of National MPs, page 343) ISBN 0474001776
