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Charles Robert Petrie
Charles Robert Petrie (1882 – 6 October 1958) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. Biography
Petrie was born in Glasgow, Scotland and arrived in New Zealand in 1911. He was an active Presbyterian.[1] A shopkeeper in Ōtāhuhu, he was first elected to the Otahuhu Borough Council in 1924, and served as mayor between 1935 and 1944.[2] Petrie unsuccessfully contested the Hauraki electorate in the 1931 election against Walter William Massey of the Reform Party.[3] He represented the Hauraki electorate from 1935 to 1938, then the Otahuhu electorate from 1938 to 1949, when he retired.[4] He died in 1958 and was buried at Otahuhu Cemetery.[5] Petrie was the sole Labour Member of Parliament to represent the Hauraki electorate in its history.[6] Notes
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