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    This is a summary of the electoral history of Arnold Nordmeyer, Leader of the Labour Party (1963–65) and Member of Parliament for Oamaru (1935–49), Brooklyn...
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    Sir Arnold Henry Nordmeyer ONZ KCMG (born Heinrich Arnold Nordmeyer, 7 February 1901 – 2 February 1989) was a New Zealand politician and Presbyterian...
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    Island Bay (New Zealand electorate) (category Historical electorates of New Zealand)
    the Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1947 to 1950. He retired from Parliament in 1954. McKeen was succeeded by Arnold Nordmeyer in the 1954...
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    becoming the first Labour prime minister. In 1963, Arnold Nordmeyer became the first New Zealand-born leader of the party; three previous leaders had been born...
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    Walter Nash (category New Zealand Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour)
    Mason, Bill Anderton and Arnold Nordmeyer. Nash was told by Mason that a number of members had complained about the leadership of the party to him and that...
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    profiles of new members of parliament. This included National's T. R. Beatty, a building contractor from Oamaru who had supposedly beaten Arnold Nordmeyer, a...
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    Norman Kirk (category Ministers of foreign affairs of New Zealand)
    dedicated to replace Nordmeyer with Kirk, becoming known as the "Mafia". At the end of 1965 he successfully challenged Arnold Nordmeyer for the parliamentary...
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  • Brooklyn (New Zealand electorate) (category Historical electorates of New Zealand)
    prominent members of the Labour Party: Peter Fraser, who was Prime Minister (1940–1949), and Arnold Nordmeyer, who was later Minister of Finance (1957–1960)...
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    a summary of the electoral history of Norman Kirk, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1972–74), Leader of the Labour Party (1965–74), Member of Parliament...
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  • Social Security Act 1938 (category Political history of New Zealand)
    McMillan and Arnold Nordmeyer feeling the government had not gone far enough. The largest apprehension came from the New Zealand Branch of the British...
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    Mick Moohan (category Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives)
    critical of the decisions made in the "Black Budget". From then on he became the chief critic within the Labour Party of Arnold Nordmeyer the Minister of Finance...
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    Black Budget (New Zealand) (category 1958 in economic history)
    Black Budget refers to the government budget of 26 June 1958, in which Minister of Finance Arnold Nordmeyer increased taxes on beer, tobacco, cars and petrol...
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    summary of the electoral history of Walter Nash, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1957–60), Leader of the Labour Party (1951–63) and Member of Parliament...
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    Ray Boord (category Members of the Cabinet of New Zealand)
    idea was conceived at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Policy on 20 December 1957, chaired by Arnold Nordmeyer, (also attended by Jerry Skinner...
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    Peter Fraser (category New Zealand Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour)
    leader of the Labour Party was Walter Nash. His successor in the Brooklyn electorate, elected in the 1951 Brooklyn by-election, was Arnold Nordmeyer. On...
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    Walter Nash leads Second Labour Government. 1958 PAYE tax introduced. Arnold Nordmeyer's "Black Budget". First geothermal electricity generated at Wairakei...
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    Harry Lake (category Ministers of finance of New Zealand)
    Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6. McRobie, Alan (1989). Electoral Atlas of New Zealand. Wellington: GP Books. ISBN 0-477-01384-8. Wilson, James...
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    of Health, formerly styled Minister of Public Health, is a minister in the New Zealand Government with responsibility for the New Zealand Ministry of...
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  • address balance-of-payments concerns. This resulted in the highly unpopular 1958 "Black Budget" of Arnold Nordmeyer, the new minister of finance, which...
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    amendment in the Electoral Act in 1965, the number of electorates in the South Island was fixed at 25, an increase of one since the 1962 electoral redistribution...
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    of the Crown Research Institutes, Callaghan Innovation, the Health Research Council of New Zealand, the Marsden Fund Council and the Royal Society of...
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    vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 25th term. It resulted in the Labour Party's first electoral victory, with Michael Joseph...
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    members of parliament, the leader of the Opposition receives annual allowances for travel and lodging. For much of the country's early history, the role...
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  • Waimarino (New Zealand electorate) (category Historical electorates of New Zealand)
    in Politics: the Memoirs of Warren Freer. Wellington: Victoria University Press. Logan, Mary (2008). Nordy, Arnold Nordmeyer: A Political Biography. Wellington:...
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    Jack Marshall (category New Zealand Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour)
    some of his colleagues were strained. Marshall promoted the retention of capital punishment for murder. However, Labour under Arnold Nordmeyer was opposed...
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    Electoral Amendment Act was passed. The number of votes cast in the Māori seats in the 1938 election rose 18.3% from the 1935 election. Opponents of the...
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    The minister of Finance (Māori: Minita mo nga Moni), originally known as colonial treasurer, is a minister and the head of the New Zealand Treasury, responsible...
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    Scholefield 1950, p. 144. Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6...
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    Muriel – Member of Parliament Ngata, Āpirana – Cabinet minister Noonan, Rosslyn – local politician Nordmeyer, Sir Arnold – minister of finance Northey...
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  • Motueka (New Zealand electorate) (category Historical electorates of New Zealand)
    Retrieved 15 August 2011. Wilson 1985, p. 234. Brown, Bruce. "Nordmeyer, Arnold Henry". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage...
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