Edward Luttrell Cullen

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The Honourable

Edward Luttrell Cullen

MM
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18th Minister of Agriculture
In office
19 December 1946 –13 December 1949
Preceded by Ben Roberts
Succeeded by Keith Holyoake
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Hawkes Bay
In office
1935  – 1946
Preceded by Hugh Campbell
Succeeded by Cyril Harker
Personal details
Born(1895-09-05)5 September 1895
Havelock North, New Zealand
Died18 February 1963(1963-02-08) (aged 67)
Political party Labour
Awards Military Medal
Military service
Allegiance New Zealand Army
Rank British Army OR-6.svg Sergeant
Battles/wars World War I

Edward Luttrell Cullen MM (5 September 1895 – 18 February 1963) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party, and a cabinet minister in the First Labour Government.

Military Medal military decoration awarded to personnel of the British Army and other services

The Military Medal (MM) was a military decoration awarded to personnel of the British Army and other arms of the armed forces, and to personnel of other Commonwealth countries, below commissioned rank, for bravery in battle on land. The award was established in 1916, with retrospective application to 1914, and was awarded to other ranks for "acts of gallantry and devotion to duty under fire". The award was discontinued in 1993 when it was replaced by the Military Cross, which was extended to all ranks, while other Commonwealth nations instituted their own award systems in the post war period.

The New Zealand Labour Party, or simply Labour, is a centre-left political party in New Zealand. The party's platform programme describes its founding principle as democratic socialism, while observers describe Labour as social-democratic and pragmatic in practice. It is a participant of the international Progressive Alliance.

First Labour Government of New Zealand

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Biography

Early life

Cullen was born in Havelock North, and educated at Nuhaka Native School and Napier Boys' High School. He farmed at Wairoa. He joined the NZEF as a Rifleman then Sergeant (No 12356) in World War I, and was awarded the Military Medal for bravery. [1]

Havelock North Place in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

Havelock North is a suburb of Hastings, New Zealand, in the North Island's Hawke's Bay district. It was a borough for many years until the 1989 reorganisation of local government saw it merged into the new Hastings District, and it is now administered by the Hastings District Council. Areas within Havelock North include Anderson Park, Iona, Havelock North Central, Te Mata and Te Mata Hills, according to the census units of Statistics NZ.

Napier Boys High School

Napier Boys' High School is a secondary boys' school in, Napier, New Zealand. It currently has a school roll of approximately 1,200 pupils. The school provides education from year 9 to Year 13.

Wairoa Place in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

Wairoa is a town and territorial authority district in New Zealand's North Island. The town is the northernmost in the Hawke's Bay region, and is located on the northern shore of Hawke Bay at the mouth of the Wairoa River and to the west of Mahia Peninsula. It is 118 kilometres northeast of Napier, and 92 kilometres southwest of Gisborne. Percentage-wise, it is often known for being New Zealand's most Maori town, with over 62.29% of the population identifying themselves as Maori. At the same time, it is also the largest town within the district of Wairoa.

Political career

New Zealand Parliament
YearsTermElectorateParty
1935 –1938 25th Hawkes Bay Labour
1938 –1943 26th Hawkes Bay Labour
1943 –1946 27th Hawkes Bay Labour
1946 –1949 28th Hastings Labour

He represented the Hawkes Bay electorate from 1935 to 1946, having stood there unsuccessfully in 1931. [2] In 1946 he won the Hastings electorate, but was unsuccessful in 1949. [3]

Hawke's Bay was a parliamentary electorate in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand from 1881 to 1996. In 1986 it was renamed Hawkes Bay.

Hastings was a parliamentary electorate in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand from 1946 to 1996. The electorate was represented by nine Members of Parliament. The Hastings electorate was a typical bellwether electorate, frequently changing between the two main parties.

He was Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Marketing from 1947 to 1949. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Gustafson, Barry (1986). From the Cradle to the Grave: a biography of Michael Joseph Savage . Auckland: Reed Methuen. p. 279. ISBN   0-474-00138-5.
  2. ↑ "A Coalition Certainty". The Evening Post . CXII (120). 17 November 1931. p. 10. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  3. ↑ Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. p. 191. OCLC   154283103.
  4. ↑ Scholefield, G. H. (1951) [1908]. Who’s Who in New Zealand (5 ed.). Wellington: Reed. p. 55.
New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by
Hugh Campbell 		Member of Parliament for Hawkes Bay
1935–1946		Succeeded by
Cyril Harker
New constituency Member of Parliament for Hastings
1946–1949		Succeeded by
Sydney Jones
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