Arthur Shapton Richards was a New Zealand

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 politician of the Labour Party

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He represented the Roskill

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 electorate from 1931

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The 1931 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 24th term. It resulted in the newly formed coalition between the United Party and the Reform Party remaining in office as the Liberal-Reform Government, although the opposition Labour...

 to 1946, and then the Mount Albert

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 electorate from 1946

New Zealand general election, 1946

The 1946 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 28th term. It saw the governing Labour Party re-elected, but by a substantially narrower margin than in the three previous elections...

 to 1947 when he died. He was the senior Government whip, and had stood unsuccessfully for Hamilton

Hamilton (New Zealand electorate)

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 in 1922

New Zealand general election, 1922

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, Marsden

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 in 1925

New Zealand general election, 1925

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 and Roskill

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 in 1928

New Zealand general election, 1928

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He was born in Reading, England and came to New Zealand in 1894, first at Gisborne and Poverty Bay, then from 1922 Auckland.