Robert Leslie Gapper Talbot QSO (18 October 1923 – 13 December 2012) was a New Zealand politician who represented the National Party as a Member of Parliament.
[3] In 1947, Talbot married Anne Sandston, and the couple had three children.
[4] In 1984, at a time when the use of Māori phrases was as yet uncommon in New Zealand, an Auckland telephone operator, Naida Glavish, was instructed to stop using "kia ora" when greeting callers after the post office had received a complaint.
She refused to do so and was consequently stood down, with the whole affair attracting much public interest.
Talbot, as Postmaster-General, is credited with successfully convincing the Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon, to overturn that prohibition.