James Arnold (New Zealand politician)

James Frederick Arnold (6 June 1859 – 10 July 1929) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament of the Liberal Party for various Dunedin electorates.

[1] James Arnold went on to become a bootmaker and trade union leader.

[3] He was known as "the bootmakers lawyer" at the Industrial Conciliation & Arbitration (ICA) Court.

[5] At the 1905 election, Arnold stressed his Independent credentials and said that the "present administration [i.e. Premier Richard Seddon's Liberal Government] were not all they should be", favoured the elective executive bill, and held himself at liberty to compel the Ministry to reconstruct.

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Arnold in c. 1905