John Bird Hine was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in the Taranaki region of New Zealand. He was Minister of Internal Affairs from 1919 to 1920 in the Reform Government.
The New Zealand Liberal Party was the first organised political party in New Zealand. It governed from 1891 until 1912. The Liberal strategy was to create a large class of small land-owning farmers wh
John Bird Hine
…the Reform Government. He won the Stratford electorate in the 1908 general election, and held it to 1919, when he was defeated by Robert Masters of the Liberal Party. In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal…