Charles Wallace Boswell (5 August 1886 – 17 June 1956) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

He founded branches in Thames and Kawakawa and was elected chairman of the Bay of Islands electorate committee.

[4] He declined to report to some clerk in External Affairs, writing instead personal letters to the Prime Minister (which secretly Fraser rather enjoyed).

But this was eclipsed by the "great furniture scandal" of items to be shipped from New Zealand to Moscow (via Tehran and Central Asia) for the new Legation, including 40 armchairs, 10 couches and a billiard table plus palm stands.

The order dreamed up by the Public Works Department and which could have seated almost the entire House of Representatives was cancelled by Fraser.