Ben Roberts (politician)

Benjamin Roberts (1880 – 17 November 1952) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party and a Cabinet Minister.

Roberts was born in 1880. He was elected to Parliament in the Wairarapa electorate in 1935, and remained a member of parliament to 1946, when he retired.

He was Minister for Agriculture and Marketing, and Minister of Marketing, from 1943 to 1946 in the First Labour Government under Peter Fraser.

Roberts died in 1952. His wife, Mary Roberts, had died in 1936.

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