1. John Francis William Wybrow was a New Zealand politician and diplomat.
17 Facts About John Wybrow
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John Wybrow was the secretary of the Labour Party and later New Zealand's High Commissioner to Canada.
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John Wybrow was educated at the Marist Brothers High School in Invercargill and was a South Island softball representative and active competitor in both rugby and athletics.
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John Wybrow then left school to work in a tile factory.
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John Wybrow later worked in the Ocean Beach freezing works in Bluff before working in the construction industry, helping to build the Roxburgh Dam.
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John Wybrow was appointed to the positions district treasury officer in Dunedin, administration officer in Alexandra and district treasury officer in Wellington.
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John Wybrow was then employed by the Decimal Currency Board as an executive officer and put in charge of public education and staff training programmes before being seconded in 1968 to a private secretary role in the office of the Leader of the Opposition.
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John Wybrow was then promoted to a role at New Zealand Treasury in 1970.
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John Wybrow was an executive officer in charge of Treasury's electronic data processing section.
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John Wybrow became private secretary to Labour Party Leader Norman Kirk from 1968 to 1970.
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John Wybrow was elected as the general secretary of the Labour Party in 1971, holding the position for fourteen years.
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When Kirk died suddenly in 1974, John Wybrow lobbied for the candidacy in the by-election for his seat.
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John Wybrow was the heavy favourite to win the nomination, so much so that he withdrew his place as a candidate on the Labour ticket for the Wellington City Council at the 1974 local elections.
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John Wybrow stood unsuccessfully for the Miramar electorate in the 1975 election, losing to the incumbent National MP Bill Young by 1,749 votes.
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John Wybrow was the subject of criticism for running in a local electorate race while at the same time having the responsibility of overseeing Labour's nationwide campaign.
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John Wybrow sought the nomination for the Miramar seat again ahead of the 1981 election and, acknowledging the criticism from 1975, stated that if he won the nomination he would resign as general-secretary prior to the election were he to be successful.
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John Wybrow retired from the role of party secretary in 1985 when he was appointed High Commissioner to Canada by the Fourth Labour Government.