Charles Robert Petrie
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Charles Robert Petrie (1882 – 6 October 1958) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
Biography
Template:NZ parlbox header Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox footer Petrie was born in Glasgow, Scotland and arrived in New Zealand in 1911. He was an active Presbyterian.Template:Sfn
A shopkeeper in Ōtāhuhu, he was first elected to the Otahuhu Borough Council in 1924, and served as mayor between 1935 and 1944.[1]
Petrie unsuccessfully contested the Hauraki electorate in the Template:NZ election link against Walter William Massey of the Reform Party.[2] He represented the Hauraki electorate from 1935 to 1938, then the Otahuhu electorate from 1938 to 1949, when he retired.Template:Sfn He died in 1958 and was buried at Otahuhu Cemetery.[3]
Petrie was the sole Labour Member of Parliament to represent the Hauraki electorate in its history.Template:Sfn
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- 1882 births
- 1958 deaths
- New Zealand Labour Party MPs
- Scottish emigrants to New Zealand
- New Zealand borough councillors
- Mayors of places in the Auckland Region
- Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
- New Zealand MPs for Auckland electorates
- New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates
- Burials at Otahuhu Cemetery
- Politicians from Glasgow
- New Zealand Presbyterians
- Unsuccessful candidates in the 1931 New Zealand general election