Sir Lancelot Raymond "Lance" Adams-Schneider (1919–1995) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party

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.

He represented the Hamilton

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 electorate from 1959 to 1969

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, and then the Waikato

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 electorate from 1969

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 to 1981

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, when he retired.

He was a Cabinet minister

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, serving as Minister of Health

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. He was later the Ambassador from New Zealand to the United States (1982–85) and to Mexico (1982–83).

He died on 3 September 1995.

Further reading

• Adams-Schneider's contribution was the closing address [in Hamilton on Saturday 20 November 1965]. At this time, he was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Ministers of Industries and Commerce and Customs.

• Adams-Schneider's contribution was a paper entitled: "Government industrial and trade strategies: the aim"

• The first edition had a Foreword by Warren Freer
  Warren Freer
  Warren Wilfred Freer was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.He represented the Mount Albert electorate in Parliament from 1947 to 1981, when he retired. He was only 26 when he entered Parliament in a by-election for the Mount Albert seat following the death of Arthur Richards, and he...
  
  , this second edition has one by Lance Adams-Schneider.

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