Jeffrey William Whittaker (born 1940) is a former
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Whittaker was a local government politician in the Havelock North Borough Council, serving as Mayor for several terms before Local Government changes saw the dissolution of the council into larger District Council areas in 1989.
From 2005 onwards Whittaker became the last living member of the old Havelock North Borough Council.
He represented the electorate of
Hastings
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in Parliament from 1990 to 1993, when he chose not to stand for re-election and returned to his prior occupation of pharmacist. He had previously contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1987. In 1993 the seat of Hastings was won by Labour candidate
Rick Barker.
He was born in Hamilton. He is one of six one-term National MPs who were elected in a swing against Labour in the
1990 election.
Whittaker has stated that his time in sitting on Parliamentary Select Committees was mostly unproductive due to his belief that, "The bureaucrats tend to run everything and to penetrate the bureaucratic morass is nigh on impossible."
Since he retired at the
1993 election Whittaker returned to
Havelock North
Havelock North () is a town in the Hawke's Bay region of the North Island of New Zealand, situated less than 2 km south-east of the city of Hastings. It was a borough for many years until the 1989 reorganisation of local government saw it merg ...
running a post office, vineyard and pharmacy.
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* ''1990 Parliamentary Candidates for the New Zealand National Party'' by John Stringer (New Zealand National Party, 1990)
1940 births
Living people
New Zealand National Party MPs
New Zealand pharmacists
People from Hamilton, New Zealand
Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates
Unsuccessful candidates in the 1987 New Zealand general election
Mayors of places in Hawke's Bay
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