Herbert Pickering

Herbert Elmer Lorraine "Lorrie" Pickering, QSO (29 March 1919 – 25 July 2009) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party, and was a cabinet minister.

He was Minister of Education in the Second National Government in 1972.

He represented the Canterbury electorates of Hurunui from 1961 to 1963, and then Rangiora from 1963 to 1972, when he retired from ill-health.^[1]

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.

Pickering died on 25 July 2009.^[2]

References

^ Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840-1984 (4 ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
^ "Obituaries — Hon Herbert Elmer Lorraine Pickering QSO". New Zealand Parliament. http://www.parliament.nz/mi-NZ/PB/Debates/Debates/f/8/6/49HansD_20090728_00000013-Obituaries-Hon-Herbert-Elmer-Lorraine-Pickering.htm. Retrieved 6 October 2010.

The First 50 Years: A History of the New Zealand National Party by Barry Gustafson (1986, Reed Methuen, Auckland; has biographical appendix of National MPs) ISBN 0474001776

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Name	Pickering, Herbert
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Short description	New Zealand politician
Date of birth	29 March 1919
Place of birth
Date of death	25 July 2009
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