Alec Monteith

Monteith was born in Woodville, the son of Sarah Ann Monteith (née Carter) and Charles Forrester Monteith, and was a farmer and storeman.{{DNZB|Atkinson|Neill|4m58|Monteith, Alexander Lamont|17 August 2012}} He was secretary of the United Storemen's Union and later secretary of the Wellington Tramways Union and the New Zealand Tramway Workers' Federation.(Gustafson, p. 162)

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In 1918, Monteith was nominated by the Soft Goods and Storeman's Union for the Labour nomination in the Wellington South by-election, but was defeated by Bob Semple.{{cite news |title=By-election |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM19181209.2.26 |access-date=18 January 2018 |newspaper=New Zealand Times |date=9 December 1918 |volume=XLIII |issue=10147 |page=4}} At the {{NZ election link|1919}}, he was the Labour candidate in the Wellington East electorate, but was defeated by the Reform Party incumbent, Alfred Newman.

Monteith represented the Wellington East electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives between {{NZ election link year|1922}} and 1925.{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103 |page=220}} In the 1922 election, he was one of four candidates, with Thomas Forsyth of the Reform Party coming second.{{cite book |first1=J. |last1=Hislop |title=The General Election, 1922 |year=1923 |publisher=Government Printer |url= http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1923-I-II.2.2.5.36 |page=4 |access-date=6 December 2014}} In the {{NZ election link|1925}}, he was beaten by Forsyth.{{cite book |title=The General Election, 1925 |year=1926 |publisher=Government Printer |url= http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1926-I.2.2.6.39 |page=4 |access-date=19 April 2015}} Monteith was also a member of the Wellington City Council from 1923 until 1926 when he resigned.

Monteith later sought the Labour nomination for the {{By-election link|Manukau|1936}} in the {{NZ electorate link|Manukau}} seat, but was beaten by Arthur Osborne.{{cite news |title=Manukau Seat |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19360811.2.87 |access-date=26 December 2018 |newspaper=Auckland Star |date=11 August 1936 |volume=LXVII |issue=189 |page=9 }}

For 21 years, from 1926 to 1947, the worker's assessor at New Zealand's Arbitration Court.{{cite news |title=Former city M.P. dies |work=The Dominion |date=27 November 1972 |page=1 }}

Monteith died on 24 November 1972 at Green Lane Hospital in Auckland, survived by five sons and two daughters. He had been admitted to hospital five weeks earlier following a stroke.

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• Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament Edited by G.A. Wood (1996, Otago University Press, Dunedin)

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