Les Gandar
Leslie Walter (Les) Gandar (26 January 1919 – 16 December 1994) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
Biography
Years | Term | Electorate | Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1966–1969 | 35th | Manawatu | National | ||
1969–1972 | 36th | Manawatu | National | ||
1972–1975 | 37th | Ruahine | National | ||
1975–1978 | 38th | Ruahine | National |
Gandar was born in 1919. He received his education from Kelburn Normal, Wellington College, and Victoria University, from where he graduated with a BSc.[1]
He represented the Manawatu electorate from 1966 to 1972, then Ruahine from 1972 to 1978.[2] He was defeated in 1978 for the new Rangitikei electorate by Bruce Beetham.[3] Beetham had won the electorate in the Rangitikei by-election, held earlier in the year on 18 February 1978 after the death of Sir Roy Jack.[4] National planned that Gandar would take over the new electorate at the November general election, and stood an interim candidate, local Jim Bull, in the by-election. But, to general surprise, Beetham won the by-election for Social Credit.
Gandar was a cabinet minister in the Second National Government of New Zealand holding the Education portfolio (1975–1978),[5] and from 1979 to 1982 was the New Zealand High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
Notes
- ^ Gustafson 1986, p. 312.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 198.
- ^ Wilson 1985, pp. 183, 198.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 183.
- ^ Wilson 1985, p. 95.
References
- Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
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