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Norman Philip Hastings Jones, (15 August 1923 – 19 November 1987) was a New Zealand National Party politician, who represented the Invercargill electorate in Parliament. ==Biography== Jones was born in 1923 at Invercargill. He attended Otago and Victoria Universities, and Dunedin Teachers' College. He taught at Wanganui for some time, before returning south to become assistant master at Southland College. Subsequently, he worked at James Hargest College and Southland Boys' High School. He served as a private in the 23rd Infantry Battalion during World War II and lost his right leg to tank fire. Jones was an Invercargill city councillor for 18 years, and served one term as deputy mayor. In the 1975 Birthday Honours, he was made a Member of the Queen's Service Medal for Public Service (QSM) for "services to civil defence and the community". He was particularly notable for his vehement opposition to the Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986. Due to his outspokenness on this and other issues, the media dubbed him "the mouth from the south". When the Labour Party won office in 1984, an economic summit was held in the debating chamber. Representatives from industry, unions and community groups attended. Jones refused to vacate his seat saying he would not give up his chair for some communist to sit down. He first stood for Parliament at a by-election in 1945. He had contested seven elections before being chosen as the National candidate for Invercargill in , when he beat the incumbent Labour representative, J. B. Munro.〔 He remained in Parliament until shortly before his death in 1987. Norman Jones died on 19 November 1987〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.gaynz.net.nz/history/Part5.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.vdig.net/hansard/archive.jsp?y=1987&m=11&d=19&o=2&p=2 )〕 from a brain tumour at the age of 64. His autobiography, ''Jonesy'', published five years earlier in 1982, detailed his wartime service and his political career, although a number of the most controversial aspects and events of his public service occurred after the book's publication. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Norman Jones (politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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