Les Gandar

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Les Gandar

Leslie Walter Gandar (26 January 1919 – 16 December 1994) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Biography

Early life and career

Gandar was born in 1919. He received his education from Kelburn Normal, Wellington College, and Victoria University College, from where he graduated with a BSc.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". During World War II, he fought for the Royal New Zealand Air Force in Britain, the Middle East, and Iran. He returned to his sheep farm in the Manawatu after the war. He was elected onto Pohangina County Council and served from 1952 to 1969, including ten years as chairman. He had a strong interest in education and was on the Massey University Council from 1963 and was the university's chancellor from 1970 to 1975.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

Political career

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Years	Term	Electorate
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Template:NZ election link year–1972	36th	Manawatu	Script error: No such module "Political party".
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Template:NZ election link year–1978	38th	Ruahine	Script error: No such module "Political party".

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He represented the Manawatu electorate from Template:NZ election link year to 1972, then Ruahine from Template:NZ election link year to 1978.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He was defeated in 1978 for the Rangitikei electorate by Bruce Beetham.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Beetham had won the electorate in the Rangitikei by-election, held earlier in the year on 18 February 1978 after the death of Sir Roy Jack.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". National planned that Gandar would take over the new electorate at the November general election, and stood an interim candidate, local Jim Bull, in the by-election. But, to general surprise, Beetham won the by-election for Social Credit.

Gandar was a cabinet minister in the Third National Government of New Zealand holding the Education portfolio (1975–1978),Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and from 1979 to 1982 was the New Zealand High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

Later life and death

Gandar died on 16 December 1994 in Wellington and was cremated.^[1]

Honours and awards

In 1977, Gandar was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal, and in 1990 he received the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.^[2]

Notes

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References

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Early life and career

Political career

Later life and death

Honours and awards

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