Personal details
Full Name:
- Keith Jacka Holyoake
Lifetime:
- 11 Feb 1904–8 Dec 1983
Prime Minister:
20 Sept–12 Dec 1957; 12 Dec 1960–7 Feb 1972
Age on becoming PM:
53
Electorate:
Pahiatua
Political Party:
National
Keith Holyoake
‘Kiwi Keith’ Holyoake, the first officially designated deputy PM (1954) was our third-longest serving leader.Although criticised for sending troops to the Vietnam War, he is now seen as ‘the most dovish of the hawks’, doing the bare minimum to keep America happy.
Read more...Events In History
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18 August 1971Deadline for Vietnam pull-out announcedPrime Minister Keith Holyoake’s statement in Parliament that New Zealand’s combat force would be withdrawn before the end of the year coincided with a similar announcement by the Australian government. Read more...
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12 May 1971Anti-Vietnam War protests in Queen Street, AucklandA civic reception for 161 Battery on its return from Vietnam was disrupted by protesters who accused New Zealand soldiers of being murderers and threw red paint symbolising the Vietnamese blood they had on their hands. Read more...
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26 November 1960'Kiwi Keith' begins 12-year reign as PMThe National Party, led by Keith Holyoake, swept into power, defeating Walter Nash's Labour Party, which had held office for the previous three years Read more...
Articles
Viceregal visiting
'To be invisible is to be forgotten,' constitutional theorist Walter Bagehot (1826–77) warned. For the King or Queen's New Zealand representative, the Governor-General, that meant hitting the road
- Page 5 - Recent changesBy the 1970s, the nature of visiting had changed. New Zealanders, not Britons, now held the job, so they did not need to be
History of the Governor-General
New Zealand has had a governor or (from 1917) a Governor-General since 1840. The work of these men and women has reflected the constitutional and political history of New Zealand in many ways.
- Page 7 - PatriatedLate last century New Zealand governments patriated (indigenised) the
Housing the Prime Minister
Almost 150 years after the government purchased the first official premier's residence on Tinakori Road, Wellington, the address of Premier House remains the same. But in the intervening years the building has been extended, renamed, abandoned and refurbished.
- Page 3 - Unofficial prime ministerial housesFrom 1935 to 1975 our prime ministers lived in a series of 'unofficial'
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Main image: Keith Holyoake and Lyndon B. Johnson
New Zealand Prime Minister Keith Holyoake with United States President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House, 1968.
