Minister of Labour (New Zealand)

The Minister of Labour was the minister in the government responsible for the Department of Labour. The portfolio was established in 1892, a year after the Department of Labour was formed, and was abolished on 1 July 2012, when it was replaced by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Today, the duties of the Minister of Labour are assumed by the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety.

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Office-holders

The following MPs have held the office of Minister of Labour:[1]

Key

  Liberal   Reform   United   Labour   National

No. Name Portrait Term of Office Prime Minister
1 William Pember Reeves 31 May 1892 10 January 1896 Ballance
Seddon
2 Richard Seddon 10 January 1896 10 June 1906
3 William Hall-Jones 21 June 1906 6 August 1906 Hall-Jones
4 John A. Millar 6 August 1906 6 January 1909 Ward
5 Alexander Hogg 6 January 1909 17 June 1909
(4) John A. Millar 17 June 1909 28 March 1912
6 George Laurenson 28 March 1912 10 July 1912 Mackenzie
7 William Massey 10 July 1912 14 May 1920 Massey
8 William Herries 17 May 1920 7 February 1921
9 George Anderson 1 March 1921 26 November 1928
Bell
Coates
10 Robert Wright 28 November 1928 10 December 1928
11 Bill Veitch 10 December 1928 28 May 1930 Ward
12 Sydney Smith 28 May 1930 22 September 1931 Forbes
13 Adam Hamilton 22 September 1931 6 December 1935
14 Tim Armstrong 6 December 1935 13 December 1938 Savage
Fraser
15 Paddy Webb 13 December 1938 27 June 1946
16 James O'Brien 27 June 1946 19 December 1946
17 Angus McLagan 19 December 1946 12 December 1949
18 Bill Sullivan 13 December 1949 13 February 1957 Holland
19 John McAlpine 13 February 1957 12 December 1957
Holyoake
20 Fred Hackett 12 December 1957 12 December 1960 Nash
21 Tom Shand 12 December 1960 11 December 1969 Holyoake
22 Jack Marshall 12 December 1969 7 February 1972
23 David Thomson 7 February 1972 8 December 1972 Marshall
24 Hugh Watt 8 December 1972 10 September 1974 Kirk
25 Arthur Faulkner 10 September 1974 12 December 1975 Rowling
26 Peter Gordon 12 December 1975 13 December 1978 Muldoon
27 Jim Bolger 13 December 1978 26 July 1984
28 Stan Rodger 26 July 1984 8 August 1989 Lange
29 Helen Clark 4 August 1989 2 November 1990 Palmer
Moore
30 Bill Birch 2 November 1990 27 March 1993 Bolger
31 Maurice McTigue 27 March 1993 21 December 1993
32 Doug Kidd 21 December 1993 16 December 1996
33 Max Bradford 16 December 1996 5 December 1999
Shipley
34 Margaret Wilson 5 December 1999 26 February 2004 Clark
35 Paul Swain 26 February 2004 19 October 2005
36 Ruth Dyson 19 October 2005 5 November 2007
37 Trevor Mallard 5 November 2007 19 November 2008
38 Kate Wilkinson 19 November 2008 6 November 2012 Key
Chris Finlayson
Acting Minister		 6 November 2012 31 January 2013
39 Simon Bridges 31 January 2013 6 October 2014

Notes
  1. Wilson 1985, pp. 71–97.

References
  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
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