{{Short description|New Zealand politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2014}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = George Munns | honorific_suffix = | image = George Munns.jpg | alt = | caption = | constituency_MP3 = Roskill | parliament3 = New Zealand | term_start3 = 14 November 1928 | term_end3 = 2 December 1931 | predecessor3 = Vivian Potter | successor3 = Arthur Shapton Richards | birth_date = 1877 | birth_place = | death_date = 1954 | death_place = | party = United | other_party = <!--For additional political affiliations--> | spouse = | partner = <!--For those with a domestic partner and not married--> | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | signature = }}

'''George Charles Munns''' (1877–1954) was a United Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

==Biography== ===Early life and career=== George Munns was born in England in 1877 and later emigrated to New Zealand in 1892. He then took an interest in the mining business and became the chairman of directors of the Maoriland Mining Company.<ref name="Who's Who">{{cite news |title=Who's Who |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19281115.2.95 |access-date=29 November 2014 |work=Auckland Star |volume=LIX |issue=271 |date=15 November 1928 |page=10 }}</ref>

===Political career=== {{NZ parlbox header|nolist=true|align=left}} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1928}} |end = 1931 |term = 23rd |electorate = {{NZ electorate link|Roskill}} |party = United Party (New Zealand) }} {{End}} For seven years Munns was a member of the Gisborne Borough Council, including three years as the chairman of the council's works committee, an later he was a member of the Gisborne School Committee. After moving to Auckland he continued his interest in local politics and became President of the Roskill East Ratepayers' Association.<ref name="Who's Who"/>

He won the Auckland electorate of Roskill in the 1928 general election, but in 1931 he was defeated by the Labour candidate Arthur Shapton Richards.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|pp=222}} In 1930 he became his party's senior Whip, serving in that capacity until his defeat.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|pp=280}}

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==References== *{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= Jim | author-link=Jim Wilson (librarian) |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103}}

{{s-start}} {{s-par|nz}} {{s-bef|before=Vivian Potter}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament for Roskill|years=1928–1931}} {{s-aft|after=Arthur Shapton Richards}} |- {{s-ppo}} {{succession box | title = Senior Whip of the United Party | years = 1930–1931 | before = Alfred Murdoch | after = Alfred Murdoch}} {{end}}

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