William Taverner (New Zealand politician)

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Taverner represented the Dunedin electorate of Dunedin South from 1928 to 1931 for the United Party,{{cite news |title=Otago Seats |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19281108.2.88.6 |access-date=9 November 2014 |work=The Evening Post |volume=CVI |issue=101 |date=8 November 1928 |page=9}} when he was defeated by Fred Jones.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|pp=209, 239}}

Under Joseph Ward, he was Minister of Railways (1928–1930), Minister of Customs (1928–1929), and Commissioner of State Forests (1928–1930).{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=80}} Under George Forbes, he was Minister of Public Works (1930–1931), and Minister of Transport (1930–1931).{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=81}}

Taverner was one of Dunedin's longest serving city councillors and was the mayor of Dunedin from 1927 to 1929.{{sfn|Thomson|1998|p=497}} In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19350506.2.12 | title=Official jubilee medals | date=6 May 1935 | work= Evening Post | access-date=2 July 2013 | page=4 }} He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1953 New Year Honours, for services to the community.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=239}}{{London Gazette |issue=39735 |date=1 January 1953 |page=44 |supp=y }}

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• {{cite book |last = Thomson |first = Jane |title = Southern People: A Dictionary of Otago and Southland Biography |year = 1998 |publisher = Dunedin City Council |location = Dunedin }}
• {{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4 |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103}}

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{{s-bef | before = Gordon Coates}}

{{s-ttl | title = Minister of Railways | years=1928–1930}}

{{s-aft | after = Bill Veitch}}

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{{s-aft | after = James Donald}}

{{s-bef | before = Harold Livingstone Tapley}}

{{s-ttl | title = Mayor of Dunedin | years=1927–1929}}

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{{S-bef | before = Thomas Sidey}}

{{s-ttl | title= Member of Parliament for Dunedin South| years=1928–1931}}

{{s-aft | after = Fred Jones}}

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