Claude Weston
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Claude Horace Weston was a New Zealand lawyer, a lieutenant-colonel in World War I, and effectively the first president of the National Party.
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Major Claude Weston (sitting) with his horse Billy in Egypt, in February or March 1916. The two other soldiers in the picture are Billy's groom and Weston's batman (servant).
United–Reform Coalition
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The United–Reform Coalition, also known as the National Political Federation from May 1935, was a coalition between two of the three major parties of New Zealand, the United and Reform parties, from 1
Claude Weston
…1927, except for a short period between 1925 and 1927 when it used the name "National Party") and the Reform Party were in a coalition, known as the United–Reform Coalition, since 1931. Weston was one of the key figures who organised a conference for 13 and 14 May 1936. Together with two others, he drew up a draft constitution…
The 1931 Cabinet: Front row (L-R): Ransom, Coates, Forbes, Stewart, Ngata and Young. Back row (L-R): Jones, Cobbe, Hamilton and Masters.