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John Bird Hine

John Bird Hine

New Zealand politician (1868–1954)

John Bird Hine (1868 – 4 February 1954) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in the Taranaki region of New Zealand. He was Minister of Internal Affairs from 1919 to 1920 in the Reform Government.

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He won the Stratford electorate in the 1908 general election, and held it to 1919,[1] when he was defeated by Robert Masters of the Liberal Party.

In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[2]

Hine died on 4 February 1954, and was buried at Kopuatama Cemetery in Stratford.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Scholefield, Guy (1950) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 (3rd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer. p. 113.
  2. [2]
    "Official jubilee medals". Evening Post. Vol. CXIX, no. 105. 6 May 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
  3. [3]
    "Cemetery search". Stratford District Council. Retrieved 6 September 2015.


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