Labour Stalwart’s Death : Mr.. P.C. Webb
(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 24. Mr. Patrick Charles Webb, a pioneer of the Labour Party in New Zealand and one of its first Ministers when it became the Government, died late last evening at the age of 66 years.
Mr. Webb, who was born at Rutherglcn, Victoria, in 1884 and came to Now Zealand in 1906, first entered Parliament in 1913. winning the Grey seat at a by-election. For refusing to sub-
mit to conscription Mr. Webb was later sentenced to imprisonment, and in 1918 his scat was declared vacant, with the result that the late Mr. 11. E. Holland, afterward leader of the Labour Party, was elected in his place. Mr. Webb returned to Parliament in 1933 after the death of Mr. Holland, and he was a member of the Cabinet from 1935 until his retirement in 1946 on account of ill-health.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23211, 24 March 1950, Page 3
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