Harry Reginald Jenkins 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 for Parnell in Auckland, New Zealand.

Member of Parliament

Harry Jenkins represented the Parnell

Parnell (New Zealand electorate)

Parnell was a parliamentary electorate in the city of Auckland, New Zealand, from 1861 to 1954.The electorate was represented by ten Members of Parliament:* Reader Wood 1861–65 & 1870–78* Robert James Creighton 1865–66* Frederick Whitaker 1866–67...

 electorate from the 1928 general election

New Zealand general election, 1928

The New Zealand general election of 1928 was held on Tuesday, 13 November in the Māori electorates, and on Wednesday, 14 November in the general electorates to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 23rd session of the New Zealand Parliament...

 to his resignation in 1930.

Resignation

In March 1930, Jenkins a United Party MP announced that he believed that the Reform Party leader, Gordon Coates

Gordon Coates

Joseph Gordon Coates, MC and bar served as the 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1925 to 1928.- Early life :Born on the Hukatere Peninsula in Kaipara Harbour where his family ran a farm, Coates took on significant responsibility at a relatively early age because his father suffered from...

, was "the ablest man in Parliament" (NZ Maoriland Worker, 12 March 1930, p. 1). He subsequently resigned his seat and then sought the Reform nomination in the by-election. Instead, Reform selected William Phillips Endean

William Phillips Endean

William Phillips Endean was an New Zealand politician, first of the Reform Party then from 1935 the National Party.-Member of Parliament:...

as its candidate. Endean won the by-election on 7 May 1930 (Habershon, p. 47).