Douglas Carter
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Sir Douglas Julian Carter Template:Post-nominals (5 August 1908 – 7 November 1988) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
Biography
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|}Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Carter was born at Foxton in 1908, the son of Walter S. Carter.Template:Sfn He received his education from Palmerston North and Waitaki Boys' High Schools. Afterwards, he was a farmer and active in various farming organisations.Template:Sfn He was chairman of the New Zealand Pig Producers council, and was with the New Zealand Sharemilkers Employers Association, the Waikato Province Dairy Section of Federated Farmers, and was on the Waikato Primary Producers council.Template:Sfn
In 1936, Carter married Mavis Rose Miles.[1]
Carter represented the Template:NZ electorate link electorate from Template:NZ election link year to 1975, when he retired.Template:Sfn He was Minister of Agriculture under Keith Holyoake (1969–1972)Template:Sfn and then John Marshall (1972), followed by Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (New Zealand) (1972).Template:Sfn He was Postmaster-General from 1969 to 1972.[2] He retired from Parliament in 1975 and was succeeded by Marilyn Waring.Template:Sfn
From 1976 to 1979, Carter was the High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.Template:Sfn
In the 1977 Queen's Silver Jubilee and Birthday Honours, Carter was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, for public services.[3]
Last years and death
The Carters lived in Taupiri.Template:Sfn Douglas Carter died in Hamilton on 7 November 1988, aged 80,[1][2] and was buried at Hamilton Park Cemetery.[4]
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- 1908 births
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- New Zealand National Party MPs
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- High commissioners of New Zealand to the United Kingdom
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- People educated at Waitaki Boys' High School
- New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates
- New Zealand Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
- People from Foxton, New Zealand
- 20th-century New Zealand farmers
- Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
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- Burials at Hamilton Park Cemetery
- Ministers of agriculture of New Zealand