Arnold Reedy
Hanara Tangiawha Te Ohaki Reedy OBE (16 August 1903 – 8 April 1971), commonly known as Arnold Reedy, was a New Zealand tribal leader, farmer and soldier. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngāti Porou iwi. He was born in Whareponga, East Coast, New Zealand, on 16 August 1903. He was the eldest son of Materoa Reedy, née Ngarimu, and John Marshall Reedy, himself the eldest son of Thomas Tyne Reedy, an Irishman, and Mihi Takawhenua Ngawiki Tuhou.[1] Hekia Parata is his granddaughter.[2] He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to the Māori people in the 1970 Queen's Birthday Honours.[3]
He was educated at Napier Boys' High School and Gisborne Boys' High School. He was a Captain in the Māori Battalion in World War II, and returned to farming after the war. He was a foundation member of the New Zealand Maori Council for ten years, and was chairman of the Horouta Tribal Executive between 1956 and 1970. In 1949 he was a Māori member of the New Zealand delegation to the United Nations.[4]
He contested the Eastern Māori seat several times; in 1957 and 1960 (when he came second) for Social Credit and in 1963, 1966 and the 1967 by-election for National.[5]
References
- ↑ Reedy, Maraki Tautuhi Orongo & Walker, Miria Hine Tapu Te Ariki. "Hanara Tangiawha Te Ohaki Reedy". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011.
- ↑ Parata, Hekia (9 December 2008). "Maiden statements". New Zealand National Party. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 45119. p. 6406. 13 June 1970. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
- ↑ Obituary in the Gisborne Herald, 10 April 1971
- ↑ Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. p. 383. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.