Paddy Blanchfield

Patrick (Paddy) Blanchfield MBE JP (18 December 1911 – 20 June 1980) was a Labour Party member of the New Zealand Parliament for Westland and the West Coast.

Member of Parliament

Parliament of New Zealand
Years	Term	Electorate		Party
1960–1963	33rd	Westland		Labour
1963–1966	34th	Westland		Labour
1966–1969	35th	Westland		Labour
1969–1972	36th	Westland		Labour
1972–1975	37th	West Coast		Labour
1975–1978	38th	West Coast		Labour

Blanchfield represented the Westland electorate from 1960 to 1972, and then the West Coast electorate from 1972 to 1978, when he retired.^[1]

In the 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to the community.^[2]

References

1. Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. p. 184. OCLC 154283103.
2. The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 47551. p. 6271. 3 June 1978. Retrieved 9 March 2014.

• Blanchfield, Paddy (1971), The Ballads of a Coaster, Palmerston North, [N.Z.]: New Zealand Books
• Wood, G. Anthony, ed. (1996). Ministers and Members: In the New Zealand Parliament. Dunedin: Otago University Press.