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Personal details

Full Name:

  • Wallace Edward Rowling

Lifetime:

  • 15 Nov 1927–31 Oct 1995

Prime Minister:

6 Sept 1974–12 Dec 1975

Age on becoming PM:

46

Electorate:

Tasman

Political Party:

Labour

Biography
Wallace Rowling

Norman Kirk’s death in office brought Bill Rowling to the prime ministership unexpectedly in August 1974. A member of an old Tasman Bay farming family, and a teacher by training, he had been finance minister since 1972.

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  • Main image: Wallace (Bill) Rowling
    Prime Minister Wallace (Bill) Rowling (1927-1995) (later Sir) announces details of wage restraints with Minister of Finance Robert Tizard, 1974.