Harry Reginald Jenkins

Jenkins represented the Parnell electorate from the 1928 general election to his resignation in 1930.^[1]

In 1925 he stood unsuccessfully for the Auckland City Council as an independent candidate and was also unsuccessful in 1927 standing on a Progressive Citizens' ticket.^[2][3]

In March 1930, Jenkins left the United Party and announced that he believed that the Reform Party leader, Gordon Coates, was "the ablest man in Parliament".^[4] He subsequently resigned his seat and then sought the Reform nomination in the by-election. Instead, Reform selected Bill Endean as its candidate. Endean won the by-election on 7 May 1930.^[5]

After leaving parliament, he was elected as a member of the Auckland City Council in 1931 standing on the Citizens' ticket.^[6]

• Habershon, R.G. (1958). A Study in Politics: 1928–31 (MA thesis). Auckland: University of Auckland.
• Scholefield, Guy (1950) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 (3rd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer.