Sir Norman William Kater MB, ChM (18 November 1874–18 August 1965) was a medical practitioner, pastoralist and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
His father Henry Kater also was a member of the Legislative Council,[2] and his grandfather William Forster was Premier of New South Wales.
He read medicine at the University of Sydney He served during first world war with the Red Cross and was appointed a Chevalier de La Legion d'Honneur.
[5] His commercial appointments included the Chairman of Co-operative Wool and Produce Co. Ltd, and a director of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company (1924-49), the Graziers' Co-operative Shearing Co Ltd (Grazcos) (from 1919), Globe Worsted Mills Ltd (from 1927) and Newcastle-Wallsend Coal Company (from 1933).
Kater was knighted in 1929 for his service as "Chairman of the Federal Pastoral Advisory Committee".