David Jones (9 November 1873 – 23 September 1941) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in the Canterbury region of New Zealand.

Outside parliament, he was best known for his involvement with the New Zealand Meat Producers Board, of which he was the inaugural chairman, and which he chaired for more than a decade.

Soon afterwards, he failed to get re-elected in the 1931 election, so he resumed his role as chairman of the Meat Producers Board and held it until 1935.

[1] He represented the Meat Producers Board at the 1932 British Empire Economic Conference in Ottawa, Canada.

It was a three-way contest, with Morgan Williams standing for the recently formed Labour Party as the other candidate apart from the incumbent.

This time, the situation was reversed, with Buddo having a lean majority over the incumbent, Jones, of 65 votes (0.89%).

[19] This change first applied at the 1928 election, when four candidates contested the electorate: Jones for Reform, Connolly for United, Williams for Labour, and a farmer from Mount Hutt, Robert Wallace Wightman, as an Independent.

[23] Connolly, who stood and an Independent Liberal that year, had a majority of 136 votes (1.46%) over Jones and was returned.

[33] For a time, the Jones family lived in the Christchurch suburb of Bryndwr.

[34] Jones retired in January 1940 and died on 23 September 1941 in a private hospital in Wellington.

[1] His pall-bearers were all fellow ex-cabinet ministers: Gordon Coates, George Forbes, Adam Hamilton, Bill Endean, Jack Massey, and Bert Kyle.