Ben Roberts (politician)

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Benjamin Roberts in 1935.

Benjamin Roberts (1880 – 17 November 1952) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party and a Cabinet Minister.

Biography[]

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate Party
1935–1938 25th Wairarapa Labour
1938–1943 26th Wairarapa Labour
1943–1946 27th Wairarapa Labour


Roberts was born in 1880 in Liverpool. He started work as a farm labourer at 13. He bought his family to New Zealand in 1907 and settled in Carterton.[1]

He was elected to Parliament in the Wairarapa electorate in 1935, and remained a member of parliament to 1946, when he retired.[2]

He was both Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Marketing, from 1943 to 1946 in the First Labour Government under Peter Fraser.[3][4]

Roberts died in 1952.[2] His first wife, Mary Roberts, had died in 1936.[5]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Scholefield, G. H. (1951) [1908]. Who's Who in New Zealand (5 ed.). Wellington: Reed. p. 200.
  2. ^ a b Wilson 1985, p. 231.
  3. ^ Taylor, Nancy M. (1986). "The Home Front Volume II - Chapter 24 — Victory at Last". Wellington: Historical Publications Branch. p. 1224. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
  4. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 84.
  5. ^ "Obituary". The Evening Post. CXXII (52). 29 August 1936. p. 11. Retrieved 17 July 2015.

References[]

  • Gustafson, Barry (1986). From the Cradle to the Grave: a biography of Michael Joseph Savage. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00138-5.
  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Agriculture
1943–1946 		Succeeded by
New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Wairarapa
1935–1949 		Succeeded by


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