Portal:New Zealand/Selected picture/Week 21, 2006
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![Harry Holland's memorial in Wellington.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Harry_Holland_memorial%2C_Wellington.jpg/300px-Harry_Holland_memorial%2C_Wellington.jpg)
Henry Edmund (Harry) Holland (10 June 1868 - 8 October 1933) was a New Zealand politician and unionist. After the 1919 elections, the first contested by the Labour party as a united bloc, Holland narrowly defeated the moderate James McCombs for the parliamentary leadership of the party, becoming Labour's first leader in the modern sense.