Horace Herring

Horace Herring in 1935

Horace Edgar Herring (1884–1962) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for Mid-Canterbury. Born in England and a mechanical engineer and draughtsman, he came to New Zealand in 1909.

Member of Parliament

Parliament of New Zealand
Years	Term	Electorate		Party
1935–1938	25th	Mid-Canterbury		Labour

Horace Herring represented the Mid-Canterbury electorate for the Labour Party between 1935 and 1938.^[1][2]

He was a supporter of John A. Lee and stood as a Democratic Labour Party candidate at the 1943 by-election, which was won by Mabel Howard. Horace Herring received a very creditable 2,578 votes; 26.7% of the total cast.^[3][4] Labour MP Ormond Wilson, described Herring as "a character only Dickens could have invented".^[5] (See also a description of his Maiden Speech in Parliament.^[6])

Herring was awarded the Coronation Medal in 1937 for services to New Zealand.

He was Mayor of Levin from 1953 to 1956.

Notes

1. Wood 1996, p. 92.
2. Wilson 1985, p. 205.
3. Taylor 1970, p. 165.
4. "By-election Totals". Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 40. 17 February 1943. p. 6. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
5. Wilson 1982, p. 72.
6. Logan 2008, p. 50.

References

• Gustafson, Barry (1986). From the Cradle to the Grave: A biography of Michael Joseph Savage. Auckland, New Zealand: Reed Methuen. p. 282. ISBN 0-474-00138-5.
• The Expulsion of John A. Lee and its Effects on the Development of the Labour Party by B.S. Taylor (1970, MA Thesis-University of Canterbury, Christchurch)
• An Outsider Looks Back by Ormond Wilson (1982, Port Nicholson Press, 1982)
• Nordy, Arnold Nordmeyer: A Political Biography by Mary Logan (2008, Steele Roberts, Wellington)
• The New Zealand Parliamentary Record: 1840-1984 by J.O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
• Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament Edited by G.A. Wood (1996, Otago University Press, Dunedin)