Robert Walls JP (18 September 1884 – 6 November 1953) was a New Zealand businessman and politician of the Labour Party.

[2] He was for a time the owner and proprietor of the private Dunedin radio station 4ZM, which was taken over by the government and closed down in the late 1930s.

[1] It was from 4ZM that Methodist minister Leslie Neale broadcast his famous Radio Church of the Helping Hand.

The message was heard by tens of thousands of working-class Dunedinites who were living in poverty during the Great Depression.

At the 1944 elections he "topped the poll" for both the City Council and the Harbour Board, and was consequently offered the role of deputy mayor, but declined in accordance with Labour Party policy, which forbade his acceptance of the office.