- Alexander Moncur
Alexander Francis Moncur (1888 - 1976) was a
New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.He was the unsuccessful Labour candidate for the Bay of Plenty seat in 1928 and for the Rotorua seat in 1931.
He represented the Rotorua electorate from 1935 to 1943, when he was defeated by
Geoffrey Sim . He was in theRNZAF 1941-1942.He was born in
Melbourne and arrived in New Zealand in 1906. He was a miner on the West Coast and Waihi, then in 1910 joined theNew Zealand Railways as a guard. He was in the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, and was Auckland branch president 1912-21. He worked atRotorua , and owned a taxi business atWaihi where he became a Borough Councillor 1925-35. Later he was the Mayor of Rotorua from 1947 to 1953.References
*"New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984" by J. O. Wilson (1985, 4th edition, Government Printer, Wellington)
*"From the Cradle to the Grave: a biography of Michael Joseph Savage" by Barry Gustafson (1986, Reed Methuen, Auckland) ISBN 0474001385 (Biographical Appendix of MPs page 291)
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