Leon Götz

Frank Leon Aroha Götz, known as (Sir) Leon Götz (12 September 1892 – 14 September 1970) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

He represented the Otahuhu electorate from 1949 to 1954, and then the Manukau electorate from 1954 to 1963. In 1963 he was defeated when standing for Manurewa.

He was born in Auckland, and had been a rubber planter in Malaya from 1913. He served in World War I in the Malayan States Rifles and in the RAF, and lost his right arm and eye.

From 1965 to 1968 he was the High Commissioner to Canada.

He was awarded the K.C.V.O. in 1963.

References

*"New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984" by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
*"The First 50 Years: A History of the New Zealand National Party" by Barry Gustafson (1986, Reed Methuen, Auckland; in biographical appendix of National MPs, page 315) ISBN 0474001776

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