Rev. Ernest Philip Aderman, OBE (22 May 1894 – February 1968) was a New Zealand

New Zealand

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 politician

Politician

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 of the National Party

New Zealand National Party

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He represented the New Plymouth

New Plymouth (New Zealand electorate)

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 electorate from 1943

New Zealand general election, 1943

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 until he retired in 1966

New Zealand general election, 1966

The 1966 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 35th term. It saw the governing National Party win a third consecutive term in office...

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In 1961 he was one of ten National MPs to vote with the Opposition and remove capital punishment

Capital punishment in New Zealand

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 for murder from the Crimes Bill that the Second National Government

Second National Government of New Zealand

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 had introduced.

He was a Church of Christ minister, born in Queensland

Queensland

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 and educated there and in Melbourne

Melbourne

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. He arrived in New Zealand in 1928, lecturing at the Church of Christ Theological College in Glenleith, Dunedin

Dunedin

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, and ministering in South Dunedin

South Dunedin

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. From 1930, he served the church at Dominion Road, Auckland

Auckland

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, and as a chaplain to the 2nd Taranaki Regiment in World War II

World War II

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He won the New Plymouth seat in an upset victory in 1943

New Zealand general election, 1943

The 1943 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 27th term. With the onset of World War II, elections were initially postponed, but it was eventually decided to hold a general election in September 1943, around two years after it...

 over Rev. Frederick Frost

Frederick Frost

Rev Frederick Ledger Frost was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.He represented the New Plymouth electorate from the 1938 general election to 1943, when he was defeated by the National candidate, Rev Ernest Aderman, who was also a Christian minister.Frost was born in Northumberland,...

, who was also a Christian minister. He was awarded the OBE in 1967.

Further reading

• This collection [housed at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington
  Wellington
  Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
  
  ] contains a pamphlet authored by Aderman.