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Frank Gill (New Zealand)
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Thomas Francis (Frank) Gill (1917 – 1 March 1982 ) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party , and an Air Commodore in the RNZAF .
He represented the Waitemata electorate in Parliament from 1969 to 1972, and then the East Coast Bays electorate in Parliament from 1972 to 1980, when he retired.
He was a Cabinet Minister, and held the positions of Minister of Health 1975-78 and Minister of Defence 1978-80 .[1]
He was New Zealand's Ambassador to the United States from 1981 until his death.[2]
References
^ New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
^ The New Zealand Almanac by Max Lambert and Ron Palenski, (1982, Moa Press)