Harold Smith (New Zealand politician) explained

George Harold Smith (1866 – 21 April 1936) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

Smith was born at Masterton in 1866, the son of Major J. Valentine Smith.

Smith unsuccessfully contested the Pahiatua electorate in the against the incumbent, John O'Meara, of the Liberal Party.^[1]

He won the Pahiatua electorate in a 1916 by-election after the death of the previous MP, James Escott, and retired in 1919.

References

• Book: Scholefield . Guy . Guy Scholefield . A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography : M–Addenda . II . 1940 . . Wellington . 6 October 2013 . 27 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140327073420/https://www.nzhistory.net.nz/files/documents/dnzb-1940/scholefield-dnzb-v2.pdf . dead .
• Book: Scholefield, Guy . Guy Scholefield . New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 . 3rd . First published in 1913 . 1950 . Govt. Printer . Wellington.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The General Election, 1899 . 19 June 1900 . Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives . 1 . 12 February 2014 . Wellington.