Ray Boord

Raymond "Ray" Boord QSO (4 February 1908 – 29 April 1982) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

Biography

Parliament of New Zealand
Years Term Electorate Party
19541957 31st Rotorua Labour
19571960 32nd Rotorua Labour

Boord was born in 1908. He represented the Rotorua electorate from 1954 to 1960,[1] when he was defeated by National's Harry Lapwood.[2]

He was a Cabinet minister under Walter Nash, and was Minister of Customs (1957–1960) in the Second Labour Government.[3]

Boord served as Mayor of Rotorua from 1971 to 1977.

He was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services in the 1975 Queen's Birthday Honours.[4] Boord died in 1982,[1] and was buried at Kauae Cemetery in Ngongataha.[5]

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 Wilson 1985, p. 184.
  2. Wilson 1985, p. 211.
  3. Wilson 1985, p. 89.
  4. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 46595. p. 7406. 14 June 1975. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  5. "Cemetery database report" (PDF). Rotorua District Council. Retrieved 17 January 2015.

References

New Zealand Parliament
Vacant
Constituency recreated after abolition in 1946
Title last held by
Geoffrey Sim
Member of Parliament for Rotorua
1954–1960
Succeeded by
Harry Lapwood
Political offices
Preceded by
Murray Linton
Mayor of Rotorua
1971–1977
Succeeded by
Ray Woolliams