Lee Martin (politician)

William Lee Martin , known as Lee Martin, was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

Martin was born in Oamaru in 1870. He received his education at Waimate District High School and at Christchurch Normal School. After school, he was an officer for The Salvation Army for six years. Afterwards, he was a painter and joined the Labour movement in Wanganui in 1902, was Secretary of the Wanganui Painters Union and, foryears, a member of the Wanganui Technical School Board. He became a dairy farmer at Matangi in the Waikato and had two years as president of the Waikato Farmers Union. He was in the Salvation Army and Methodist Church and served for many years on school committees, road boards, factory suppliers committees and as a member of the Central Waikato Electric Power Board from its formation in 1920.

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