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Rob Talbot

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Robert Leslie Gapper (Rob) Talbot (born 1923) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He was the Post Master General as well as the Minister of Tourism and Robert Muldoon loyalist.

He represented the Ashburton electorate in Parliament from 1966 to 1969, then the South Canterbury electorate from 1969 to 1978, then the Ashburton electorate again from 1978 to 1987, when he retired. He was replaced by Jenny Shipley. As Postmaster General he had signed off on New Zealand's first cellular network in 1983.

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New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)

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