April 22, 2015
Ria Bond new list MP
Ria Bond has been confirmed at the new list MP for New Zealand First.
She takes up the list position vacated by party leader Winston Peters with his confirmation as the MP for Northland.
Ms Bond, from Ngati Hine, will be based in Invercargill, where she had a hairdressing business.
She was also president of the New Zealand Association of Registered Hairdressers for six years and a director on the Hairdressing Industry Training Organisation, which included being an NZQA governance and advisory panel member.
After last year’s election she worked in parliament supporting two of the party’s MPs.
Mr Peters says coming from Southland Ms Bond has seen at first hand the regional neglect by Wellington, with communities losing their capacity to make workable decisions at a local level.
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