Charles Robert Petrie

Charles Robert Petrie MP
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Otahuhu
In office 1938 – 1949
Preceded by	Seat established
Succeeded by	Leon Götz
Personal details
Born	1882 Glasgow, Scotland
Died	6 October 1958 Otahuhu, New Zealand
Political party	Labour

Charles Robert Petrie (1882 – 6 October 1958) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

Biography

Parliament of New Zealand
Years	Term	Electorate		Party
1935–1938	25th	Hauraki		Labour
1938–1943	26th	Otahuhu		Labour
1943–1946	27th	Otahuhu		Labour
1946–1949	28th	Otahuhu		Labour

Petrie was born in Glasgow, Scotland and arrived in New Zealand in 1911. He was an active Presbyterian.^[1]

A shopkeeper in Otahuhu, he was first elected to the Otahuhu Borough Council in 1924, and served as mayor between 1935 and 1944.^[2]

Petrie unsuccessfully contested the Hauraki electorate in the 1931 election against Walter William Massey of the Reform Party.^[3] He represented the Hauraki electorate from 1935 to 1938, then the Otahuhu electorate from 1938 to 1949, when he retired.^[4] He died in 1958 and was buried at Otahuhu Cemetery.^[5]

Petrie was the sole Labour Member of Parliament to represent the Hauraki electorate in its history.^[6]

Notes

1. Gustafson 1986, p. 294.
2. "Petrie, Charles". Auckland Council. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
3. "Election Counts". Auckland Star LXII (291). 9 December 1931. p. 9. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
4. Wilson 1985, p. 226.
5. "Cemeteries database". Auckland Council. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
6. Wilson 1985, p. 264.

References

• Gustafson, Barry (1986). From the Cradle to the Grave: a biography of Michael Joseph Savage. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00138-5.
• Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.