Charles Robert Petrie | |
Parliament4: | New Zealand |
Constituency Mp4: | Otahuhu |
Term Start4: | 15 October 1938 |
Term End4: | 30 November 1949 |
Predecessor4: | Seat established |
Successor4: | Leon Götz |
Birth Date: | 1882 |
Birth Place: | Glasgow, Scotland |
Death Date: | 6 October 1958 |
Death Place: | Ōtāhuhu, New Zealand |
Party: | Labour |
Charles Robert Petrie (1882 – 6 October 1958) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
Petrie was born in Glasgow, Scotland and arrived in New Zealand in 1911. He was an active Presbyterian.
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 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. 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.