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
19351938 25th Hauraki Labour
19381943 26th Otahuhu Labour
19431946 27th Otahuhu Labour
19461949 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

New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by
Walter William Massey
Member of Parliament for Hauraki
1935–1938
Succeeded by
John Manchester Allen
New constituency Member of Parliament for Otahuhu
1938–1949
Succeeded by
Leon Götz


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