Paraone Reweti
Template:Short description Template:Use New Zealand English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Paraone Brown Reweti Template:Post-nominals (17 November 1916 – 21 April 1996) was a New Zealand politician and Rātana morehu.
Early life
Of Ngāti Ranginui ancestry, Reweti came to Parliament from a position as an executive member of the Mount Maunganui Watersiders' Union.[1]
Political career
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|}Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Reweti won the Eastern Maori electorate for Labour, in the Template:By-election link following the death of Puti Tipene Watene. He held the electorate until 1981, when he retired.[2]
From 1973 to 1975, during the Third Labour Government, he was chairman of the parliamentary Māori Affairs Committee.[3] In January 1976 he was appointed by Labour leader Bill Rowling as Shadow Minister of Marine.[4]
In the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, Reweti was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services.[5]
References
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- ↑ Henderson, James Mcleod (1963). Ratana The Man, The Church, The Movement (1st ed.) A.H & A.W. Reed Ltd Template:ISBN.
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- 1916 births
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- Ngāti Ranginui people
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- Rātana people
- People from Mount Maunganui
- New Zealand trade unionists
- New Zealand MPs for Māori electorates
- Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
- Companions of the Queen's Service Order
- 20th-century New Zealand politicians