Gordon Hultquist

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

He represented the Bay of Plenty electorate from the 1935 general election to 1941. He enlisted in the New Zealand Army, and was a Lieutenant in the Signals Corps when he died in Egypt from influenza, after taking part in the campaigns in Greece and Crete.

He was born in Western Australia, an electrician and the son of a Swedish Salvation Army Officer. He was on John A. Lee's campaign committee in 1931. A territorial soldier, he volunteered on the outbreak of war in 1939.

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• Photo of Lieutenant Hultquist

[edit] 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 284)