Alexander Lamont Monteith (1886-1972) was a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 and trade unionist.

Member of Parliament

Alec Monteith represented the Wellington East electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives

New Zealand House of Representatives

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 between 1922 and 1925 (Wilson, p.220). He was also a member of the Wellington City Council.

Monteith was born in Woodville

Woodville, New Zealand

Woodville is a small town in the southern North Island of New Zealand, 75 km north of Masterton and 25 km east of Palmerston North. In the 2006 census 1,398 people are usually resident in Woodville, a decrease of 81 people, or 5.5%, since the 2001 Census.-Early History and Local...

and was a farmer and storeman. He was Secretary of the United Storemen's Union and later Secretary of the Wellington Tramways Union and the New Zealand Tramway Workers' Federation (Gustafson, p.162).

Further reading

• The New Zealand Parliamentary Record: 1840-1984 by J.O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
• Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament Edited by G.A. Wood (1996, Otago University Press, Dunedin)