Gordon Hultquist Explained

Gordon Hultquist
Constituency Mp:Bay of Plenty
Parliament:New Zealand
Term Start:28 November 1935
Term End:1 November 1941
Predecessor:Kenneth Williams
Successor:Bill Sullivan
Birth Date:1904
Death Date:1 November 1941 (aged 36-37)
Death Place:Egypt
Death Cause:Influenza
Branch:New Zealand Army
Serviceyears:1939–1941
Rank: Lieutenant
Battles:World War II

Axel Gordon Hultquist (1904 – 1 November 1941) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

Early life

Hultquist was born in Bunbury, Western Australia, an electrician and the son of a Swedish Salvation Army Officer. He emigrated to New Zealand 1907 with his parents. He received education in Hamilton and later Auckland before becoming an apprentice electrician in Christchurch. There he was involved in union work and was an organiser for Dan Sullivan MP for Avon. He moved back to Auckland in 1925 where he became a foreman with Allum Electrical Company. He was a member of the executive of the Auckland Electrical Workers Union and Grey Lynn Debating Society.

Political career

Hultquist was on John A. Lee's campaign committee in Grey Lynn in 1931. In 1933 he stood unsuccessfully for the Auckland City Council on a Labour Party ticket.[1]

He represented the Bay of Plenty electorate from the 1935 general election to 1941 when he died.[2]

World War II

A territorial soldier, he volunteered on the outbreak of war in 1939. He enlisted in the New Zealand Army, and took part in the campaigns in Greece and Crete. He was a Lieutenant in the Signals Corps when he died in Egypt from influenza.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. News: City Council Contest . . 4 May 1933 . LXX . 21482 . 10 May 2017 . 11 .
  2. Book: Wilson, James Oakley . New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 . 4 . First ed. published 1913 . 1985 . V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer . Wellington . 154283103 . 206.
  3. Book: Gustafson, Barry . Barry Gustafson . . 1986 . Reed Methuen . Auckland . 0-474-00138-5 . 284.