Vernon Herbert Reed was a Liberal Party

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 and then (from 1914) a Reform Party

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 member of parliament in New Zealand.

He won the Bay of Islands

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 electorate in the 1908 general election

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. His election in 1914

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, narrowly defeating Te Rangi Hīroa, was declared void in 1915. He won the seat again in 1917, and was defeated in 1922

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He was later appointed a member of the Legislative Council

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, from 1924 to 1931.