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Prime Minister
  
Sidney Holland

Preceded by
  
new constituency

Preceded by
  
Mabel Howard

Name
  
Jack Watts


Preceded by
  
Sidney Holland

Role
  
Politician

Preceded by
  
Herbert Kyle

Succeeded by
  
Jack Marshall

Jack Watts (politician)

Prime Minister
  
Sidney Holland Keith Holyoake

Died
  
August 6, 1970, Wellington, New Zealand

Party
  
New Zealand National Party

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Jack Thomas Watts (15 April 1909 – 6 August 1970) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party and the twenty-seventh Minister of Finance, from November 1954 to 12 December 1957, when he retired.

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Political career

He was the Member of Parliament for Riccarton 1943–46, then St Albans 1946–57, then Fendalton 1957–60. He was Minister of Health and Minister of Social Security in the Holland Ministry (1949–54), then Minister of Finance and Minister in Charge of the Census and Statistics Department in the next Holland Ministry (1954–57) and in the first Holyoake Ministry of 1957 (plus Minister in Charge of the Inland Revenue Department).

Watts retired at the 1960 election due to poor health.

References

Jack Watts (politician) Wikipedia