The Minister of Justice is a minister in the New Zealand Government. The minister has responsibility for the formulation of justice policy and for the administration of law courts.
Henry Sewell, 1860 cropped
John Bathgate, taken by an unidentified photographer
George Maurice O’Rorke
Charles Christopher Bowen, 1878
The Minister of Police is the minister in the New Zealand Government with responsibility for the New Zealand Police.
Minister of Justice (New Zealand)
…charge of the police. This continued until the election of the First Labour Government in 1935, when responsibility for the police became detached – the Minister of Police was eventually established as a full ministerial post in 1969. In 1995, the Department of Justice was split into three parts – a Ministry of Justice…
Thomas Thompson, 1884
James Mc Gowan, 1908
John George Findlay
Josiah Alfred Hanan, ca 1908