Rex Austin
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William Rex Austin Template:Post-nominals (23 May 1931 – 23 June 2022) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
Biography
Template:NZ parlbox header Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox footer Austin was born in Riverton, Southland, in 1931.[1] Of Māori descent, he affiliated to Ngāi Tahu, Waitaha and Kāti Māmoe.[2] He received his education at Southland Technical College and Lincoln College;[3] at the latter institution, he obtained a diploma in agriculture.[4] In 1958, he married Miriam Helen Brumpton, with whom he had four sons.[1]
Austin farmed at Colac Bay in Southland and lived in Riverton. From 1971, he was a member of the Southland Hospital Board.[1]
In the 1975 election he was elected to Parliament as the National Party MP for Awarua, which he represented until 1987.[5]
Austin and Ben Couch were the second and third Māori (after Sir James Carroll) to win a general electorate, as opposed to one of the Māori electorates.
Austin died in Invercargill on 23 June 2022, at the age of 91.[6]
Honours
In 1977, Austin was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal, and in 1990 the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[7] In the 1994 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the community.[8]
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- 1931 births
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- New Zealand National Party MPs
- Māori MPs
- Ngāi Tahu people
- New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire
- New Zealand MPs for South Island electorates
- Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
- People from Riverton, New Zealand
- Lincoln University (New Zealand) alumni
- People educated at Aurora College (Invercargill)
- Kāti Māmoe people
- Waitaha (South Island iwi)