Moncur was born in
Melbourne in 1888, and arrived in New Zealand in 1906. He was a
miner on the West Coast and
Waihi, then in 1910 joined the
New Zealand Railways as a guard. He was in the
Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, and was
Auckland branch president 1912–1921. He worked at
Rotorua, and owned a taxi business at
Whakatane where he became a Borough Councillor 1925–1935. He was the unsuccessful Labour candidate for the
Bay of Plenty electorate in
1928, running against
Kenneth Williams who had been returned unopposed in 1922 and 1925 (and was again unopposed in 1931). He then ran for the
Rotorua electorate in
1931. He represented the Rotorua electorate from
1935 to 1943, when he was defeated by
Geoffrey Sim. He was in the
RNZAF 1941–1942. Later, Moncur was the
mayor of Rotorua from 1947 to 1953. In 1953, he was awarded the
Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal. Moncur died in 1976 and was buried at Maunu Cemetery,
Whangārei. ==Notes==