George Jones (New Zealand politician)
George Jones was a 19th-century member of parliament in Otago, New Zealand.
Jones was born in Upper Hutt in 1844. He went to Australia with his parents, where he received his education at Scales Academy and then at the Geelong Grammar School. He learned his trade in printing and writing and returned to New Zealand in 1863, where he took up roles with the Christchurch newspapers Canterbury Standard, the Lyttelton Times, and then The Press. He moved to Ngaruawahia in 1872, where he set up the Waikato Times, selling it when he moved to Oamuru in 1877.
He represented the Waitaki electorate from to 1881, when he retired. He was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1895, until he died in 1920.
