Background
Maher was born in 1888 in Palmerston N. He received his education at a local school until age 12, when his father died and he became a farm worker.
politician Member of the New Zealand House of Representatives
Maher was born in 1888 in Palmerston N. He received his education at a local school until age 12, when his father died and he became a farm worker.
He then went sharemilking, and leased a farm at Mangaroa, which he later purchased. In the 1943 election, Maher contested the Wairarapa electorate, but was beaten by the incumbent, Labour's Benjamin Roberts. At the next general election in 1946, he successfully contested the Otaki electorate, where the incumbent, Labour's Leonard Lowry, retired that year.
Maher represented the electorate until he retired in 1960. He was awarded an OBE in 1962 and died on 28 July 1964.
He was the inaugural president of the Town Milk Supplies Board from 1943, chaired the Wellington Dairy Farmers Co-op Association, was a member of the Hutt Valley Council, a member of the Hutt Valley Power Board, and was a treasurer of Federated Farmers in 1948.