William Downie Stewart

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He is not to be confused with William Stewart (New Zealand) a Bay of Islands politician.

William Downie Stewart (1878–1949) was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party, a Cabinet minister, a lawyer, and Mayor of Dunedin from 1913 to 1914.

He was Minister of Finance in the Liberal-Reform coalition Government of New Zealand from 1931 to 1933

He represented the Dunedin West electorate from 1914 to 1935, when he was defeated by Gervan McMillan. He stood in the 1935 contest as an Independent National candidate.

His father, also William Downie Stewart (1842-1898), had previously represented the Dunedin West electorate.

[edit] Further reading

  • Dale, Stephanie M. (1981), 'Gentleman of politics: a life of William Downie Stewart, 1878--1949' [M.A. - University of Otago] 
  • Hawes, Carol (1965), A preliminary bibliography of the writings of William Downie Stewart (1878-1949), Wellington, [N.Z.]: Library School 
  • Le Rossignol, James Edward & Stewart, William Downie (1909), “Railways in New Zealand”, Quarterly journal of economics 23 (August 1909): 652-696 
  • Le Rossignol, James Edward & Stewart, William Downie (1909), “The public debt in New Zealand”, Journal of political economy 17 (October 1909): 509-527 
  • Le Rossignol, James Edward & Stewart, William Downie (1910), Compulsory arbitration in New Zealand, Boston, [MA.]: Harvard University 
  • Le Rossignol, James Edward & Stewart, William Downie (1911), State socialism in New Zealand, London, [England]: Harrap 
  • Siegfried, André & Burns, E. V. (trans.) (1914), Democracy in New Zealand, London, [England]: G. Bell & Sons 
  • Stewart provided the "Introduction" for this volume. It is a translation of the French title, "La démocratie en Nouvelle-Zélande" [published Paris: Armand Colin, 1904].
  • Siegfried, André & Burns, E. V. (trans.) (1982), Democracy in New Zealand (2nd ed.), Wellington, [N.Z.] ; Petone, [N.Z.]: Victoria University Press ; Price Milburn 
  • Stewart, William Downie (1909), Land tenure and land monopoly in New Zealand, I-II, Chicago, [IL.]: University of Chicago Press 
  • Stewart, William Downie (1934), The journal of George Hepburn: on his voyage from Scotland to Otago in 1850-- with extracts from his letters written from Otago, Dunedin, [N.Z.]: Coulls Somerville Wilkie 
  • Stewart is Hepburn's grandson.
  • Stewart, William Downie (1940), William Rolleston: a New Zealand statesman, Christchurch, [N.Z.]: Whitcombe & Tombs 
  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985), New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 (4th ed.), Wellington, [N.Z.]: Government Printer 
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