Gordon Hultquist
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Bay of Plenty
In office
28 November 1935 – 1 November 1941 †
Preceded byKenneth Williams
Succeeded byBill Sullivan
Personal details
Born1904
Bunbury, WA, Australia
Died1 November 1941 (aged 36-37)
Egypt
Cause of deathInfluenza
Military service
Branch/serviceNew Zealand Army
Years of service1939–1941
Rank Lieutenant
Battles/warsWorld War II

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

Early life

Hultquist was born in Bunbury, Western Australia, an electrician and the son of a Swedish Salvation Army Officer. He emigrated to New Zealand 1907 with his parents. He received education in Hamilton and later Auckland before becoming an apprentice electrician in Christchurch. There he was involved in union work and was an organiser for Dan Sullivan MP for Avon. He moved back to Auckland in 1925 where he became a foreman with Allum Electrical Company. He was a member of the executive of the Auckland Electrical Workers Union and Grey Lynn Debating Society.[1]

Political career

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate Party
1935–1938 25th Bay of Plenty Labour
1938–1941 26th Bay of Plenty Labour

Hultquist was on John A. Lee's campaign committee in Grey Lynn in 1931. In 1933 he stood unsuccessfully for the Auckland City Council on a Labour Party ticket.[2]

He represented the Bay of Plenty electorate from the 1935 general election to 1941 when he died.[3]

World War II

A territorial soldier, he volunteered on the outbreak of war in 1939. He enlisted in the New Zealand Army, and took part in the campaigns in Greece and Crete. He was a Lieutenant in the Signals Corps when he died in Egypt from influenza.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Gustafson, Barry (1986). From the Cradle to the Grave: a biography of Michael Joseph Savage. Auckland: Reed Methuen. p. 284. ISBN 0-474-00138-5.
  2. ↑ "City Council Contest". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXX, no. 21482. 4 May 1933. p. 11. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  3. ↑ Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 (4 ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. p. 206. OCLC 154283103.
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