William Thomas Wood

Who was William Thomas Wood?

William Thomas Wood was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

Wood was active in local body politics. He was elected councillor on the Palmerston North Borough in 1884, 1885–1887, 1892–1895 and again in 1901. He was Mayor of Palmerston North from 1895–1899, and again from 1901–1903.

Wood was endorsed by Prime Minister Richard Seddon as the government candidate for the Palmerston electorate in the 1899 general election, a measure by which Seddon demonstrated his opposition to Frederick Pirani. Pirani won the Palmerston electorate that year, but unsuccessfully contested the 1902 election in the Hutt electorate.

Wood won the Palmerston electorate in the 1902 general election, was re-elected in 1905, but in 1908 he was defeated by the Reform candidate David Buick.