Ernest Aderman

Rev. Ernest Philip Aderman, OBE (22 May 1894 – February 1968) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

He represented the New Plymouth electorate from 1943 until he retired in 1966.

In 1961 he was one of ten National MPs to vote with the Opposition and remove capital punishment for murder from the Crimes Bill that the Second National Government had introduced.

He was a Church of Christ minister, born in Queensland and educated there and in Melbourne. He arrived in New Zealand in 1928, lecturing at the Church of Christ Theological College in Glenleith, Dunedin, and ministering in South Dunedin. From 1930, he served the church at Dominion Road, Auckland, and as a chaplain to the 2nd Taranaki Regiment in World War II.

He won the New Plymouth seat in an upset victory in 1943 over Rev. Frederick Frost, who was also a Christian minister. He was awarded the OBE in 1967.

Further reading

• [New Zealand National Party ephemera, 1935-1945, including election propaganda and pamphlets, etc.], n.p.: New Zealand National Party, 1935-1945 

• This collection [housed at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington] contains a pamphlet authored by Aderman.

• Gustafson, Barry (1986), The First 50 Years: A History of the New Zealand National Party, Auckland, [N.Z.]: Reed Methuen, p. 296, ISBN 0-474-00177-6 

• Wilson, James Oakley (1985), New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840-1984 (4th ed.), Wellington, [N.Z.]: Government Printer