Brown Reweti | |
Constituency Mp2: | Eastern Maori |
Parliament2: | New Zealand |
Term Start2: | 12 August 1967 |
Term End2: | 28 November 1981 |
Predecessor2: | Puti Tipene Watene |
Successor2: | Peter Tapsell |
Birth Date: | 17 November 1916 |
Party: | Labour |
Paraone Brown Reweti (17 November 1916 – 21 April 1996) was a New Zealand politician and Rātana morehu.
Of Ngāti Ranginui ancestry, Reweti came to Parliament from a position as an executive member of the Mount Maunganui Watersiders' Union.[1]
Reweti won the Eastern Maori electorate for Labour, in the 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.