Donald Norman McKay

Sir Donald Norman McKay KCMG (28 November 1908 30 March 1988) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He was Minister of Health and Minister of Social Security in the Second National Government.

Biography

Parliament of New Zealand
Years Term Electorate Party
19541957 31st Marsden National
19571960 32nd Marsden National
19601963 33rd Marsden National
19631966 34th Marsden National
19661969 35th Marsden National
19691972 36th Marsden National

McKay was born in 1908 in Waipu. He received his education from Whangarei Boys' High School and the University of Auckland. He became a farmer in Waipu.[1]

He represented the Marsden electorate in the Northland region from 1954, and he retired in 1972.[2] He was Minister of Health and Minister of Social Security in the Second National Government from 1962 to 1972 under Keith Holyoake.[3]

McKay was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George for public services in the 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours,[4] and died in 1988.

Notes

  1. Gustafson 1986, p. 329.
  2. Wilson 1985, p. 215.
  3. Wilson 1985, p. 90.
  4. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 47551. p. 6269. 3 June 1978. Retrieved 3 February 2016.

References

Political offices
Preceded by
Norman Shelton
Minister of Health
1962–1972
Succeeded by
Lance Adams-Schneider
New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by
Alfred Murdoch
Member of Parliament for Marsden
1954–1972
Constituency abolished


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