George William Forbes was a New Zealand politician, born 12 March 1869 in Lyttelton and died 17 May 1947 in Cheviot, who represented Hurunui in Parliament from 1908 to 1943 across Liberal, National, United and National Party affiliations. He served as Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Lands for Settlement from December 1928, becoming the twenty-second Prime Minister from 28 May 1930 to 6 December 1935 and leading New Zealand through the worst years of the Great Depression, a period in which his government established the Reserve Bank and merged the Liberal and Reform traditions into the modern National Party.
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