Lance Adams-Schneider

Sir Lancelot Raymond "Lance" Adams-Schneider (1919–1995) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

He represented the Hamilton electorate from 1959 to 1969, and then the Waikato electorate from 1969 to 1981, when he retired.

He was a Cabinet minister, serving as Minister of Health. He was later the Ambassador from New Zealand to the United States (1982–85) and to Mexico (1982–83).

He died on 3 September 1995.

Further reading

• Industrial Development Seminar [Industrial Development Seminar ( 1966: Hamilton, N.Z.)] (2nd ed.), Hamilton, [N.Z.]: n.p., 1966 

• Adams-Schneider's contribution was the closing address [in Hamilton on Saturday 20 November 1965]. At this time, he was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Ministers of Industries and Commerce and Customs.

• The New Zealand Institute of Management Inc. Top Management Seminar, July 22 and 23, 1981: management and the effects of government strategy, Wellington, [N.Z.]: New Zealand Institute of Management, 1981 

• Adams-Schneider's contribution was a paper entitled: "Government industrial and trade strategies: the aim"

• A report on the practice of sending criminals to mental hospitals ; to: the Minister of Health, the Hon. L.R. Adams-Schneider and the Minister of Justice, the Hon. Sir Roy Jack – April 1972, Wellington, [N.Z.]: n.p., 1972 

• O'Keefe, John A. B. (1978), The Commerce Act 1975: the text of the statute and its amendments with annotations (2nd ed.), Wellington, [N.Z.]: Butterworths 

• The first edition had a Foreword by Warren Freer, this second edition has one by Lance Adams-Schneider.

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