William Downie Stewart
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- Not to be confused with Bay of Islands politician William Stewart (New Zealand)
William Downie Stewart (1878–1949) was a New Zealand Finance Minister, Mayor of Dunedin and writer.
[edit] Member of Parliament
William Downie Stewart represented the Dunedin West electorate from 1914 to 1935.
[edit] Minister of Finance & Resignation
Downie Stewart was Finance Minister between 1931-1933. He resigned after the devaluation of the NZ currency, a measure he opposed (Wood, p.118 & Burdon, 'New Dominion', p.161).
Downie Stewart stood in the 1935 election as an Independent National candidate.
His father, also William Downie Stewart (1842-1898), had previously represented the Dunedin West electorate.
The younger Downie Stewart was Mayor of Dunedin (1913-14) and the author of a number of books.
[edit] Further reading
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- Dale, Stephanie M. (1981), 'Gentleman of politics: a life of William Downie Stewart, 1878--1949' [M.A. - University of Otago]
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- Dale, Stephanie M., 'Stewart, William Downie 1878-1949'. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, updated 22 June 2007, http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/, retrieved on 2008-04-22
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- Hawes, Carol (1965), A preliminary bibliography of the writings of William Downie Stewart (1878-1949), Wellington, [N.Z.]: Library School
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- Le Rossignol, James Edward; Stewart, William Downie (1909), "Railways in New Zealand", Quarterly journal of economics 23 (August 1909): 652–696, doi:
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- Le Rossignol, James Edward; Stewart, William Downie (1909), "The public debt in New Zealand", Journal of political economy 17 (October 1909): 509–527, doi:
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- Le Rossignol, James Edward; Stewart, William Downie (1910), Compulsory arbitration in New Zealand, Boston, [MA.]: Harvard University
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- Le Rossignol, James Edward; Stewart, William Downie (1911), State socialism in New Zealand, London, [England]: Harrap
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- Siegfried, André; Burns, E. V. (trans.) (1914), Democracy in New Zealand, London, [England]: G. Bell & Sons
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- Stewart provided the "Introduction" for this volume. It is a translation of the French title, "La démocratie en Nouvelle-Zélande" [published Paris: Armand Colin, 1904].
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- Siegfried, André; Burns, E. V. (trans.) (1982), Democracy in New Zealand (2nd ed.), Wellington, [N.Z.] ; Petone, [N.Z.]: Victoria University Press ; Price Milburn
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- Stewart, William Downie (1909), Land tenure and land monopoly in New Zealand, I-II, Chicago, [IL.]: University of Chicago Press
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- Stewart, William Downie (1934), The journal of George Hepburn: on his voyage from Scotland to Otago in 1850-- with extracts from his letters written from Otago, Dunedin, [N.Z.]: Coulls Somerville Wilkie
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- Stewart is Hepburn's grandson.
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- Stewart, William Downie (1937), The Right Honourable Sir Francis H.D. Bell, P.C., G.C.M.G., K.C. : his life and times, Wellington, [N.Z.]: Butterworth
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- Stewart, William Downie (1940), William Rolleston: a New Zealand statesman, Christchurch, [N.Z.]: Whitcombe & Tombs
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- Wilson, James Oakley (1985), New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 (4th ed.), Wellington, [N.Z.]: Government Printer
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