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The Honourable
Ray Boord
QSO
Mayor of Rotorua
In office
1971–1977
DeputyPeter Tapsell
Preceded byMurray Linton
Succeeded byRay Woolliams
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Rotorua
In office
1954–1960
Preceded byIn abeyance
Succeeded byHarry Lapwood
Personal details
Born(1908-02-04)4 February 1908
Died29 April 1982(1982-04-29) (aged 74)
Political partyLabour

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

Biography

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate Party
1954–1957 31st Rotorua Labour
1957–1960 32nd Rotorua Labour

Boord was born in 1908.

Boord stood for election to the New Zealand House of Representatives for the Labour Party in Bay of Plenty in 1946, but was unsuccessful.[1]

In 1953, following an electoral redistribution the electorate of Waimarino was abolished and largely absorbed into Rotorua. Boord won the candidate selection for the "new" seat of Rotorua defeating Paddy Kearins.[2][3] He won the seat and represented the Rotorua electorate from 1954 to 1960,[4] when he was defeated by National's Harry Lapwood.[5]

He was a Cabinet minister under Walter Nash, and was Minister of Customs (1957–1960) in the Second Labour Government.[6]

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.[7] Boord died in 1982,[4] and was buried at Kauae Cemetery in Ngongataha.[8]

Honorific eponym

Ray Boord Park in the Rotorua suburb of Westbrook is named after Boord.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ "The General Election, 1946". National Library. 1947. pp. 1–11, 14. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  2. ^ Freer 2004, pp. 33, 58.
  3. ^ Logan 2008, p. 282.
  4. ^ a b Wilson 1985, p. 184.
  5. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 211.
  6. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 89.
  7. ^ "No. 46595". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 1975. p. 7406.
  8. ^ "Cemetery database report" (PDF). Rotorua District Council. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  9. ^ "Rotorua, New Zealand" (PDF). Retrieved 1 February 2018.

References

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  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [1913]. New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Freer, Warren (2004). A Lifetime in Politics: the Memoirs of Warren Freer. Wellington: Victoria University Press. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Logan, Mary (2008). Nordy, Arnold Nordmeyer: A Political Biography. Wellington: Steele Roberts. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
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
Political offices
Preceded by Mayor of Rotorua
1971–1977 		Succeeded by
Ray Woolliams
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