Stewart Reid Explained

Daniel Stewart Reid
Constituency Mp:Waikato
Parliament:New Zealand
Term Start:4 November
Term End:18 October 1928
Predecessor:Frederick Lye
Successor:Frederick Lye
Constituency Mp2:Raglan
Parliament2:New Zealand
Term Start2:2 December
Term End2:1 November 1935
Predecessor2:Lee Martin
Successor2:Lee Martin
Birth Date:30 October 1867
Birth Place:Drury, New Zealand
Party:Reform Party

Daniel Stewart Reid (30 October 1867 – 6 May 1952) was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party.

Early life

Reid was born in Drury in 1867, some distance south of Auckland. His parent had arrived in New Zealand from Argyllshire in Scotland in circa 1865.[1] His parents were Margaret and Walter Reid,[2] but his father's obituary published in the Auckland Star in July 1925 erroneously talks of Andrew Reid. The family lived in Drury, and then in Wairoa in the Hawke's Bay Region.[3]

From approximately age eight, Reid lived at Tuhikaramea near present-day Temple View in the Waipa District.[4] He married Margaret Donnet Hodgson on 8 April 1897.[5]

Political career

Reid was involved in local affairs and served as chairman of the Waipa County Council, as a member of the Tuhikaramea Road Board and school committees, and as a member of the No. 2 District Highways Board and the Central Electric Power board. When the Rural Counties' Association formed in 1925, Reid was elected onto the provisional executive.[6]

Reid was chosen as the official candidate for the Reform Party in early September 1925 for the electorate.[7] In the, Reid successfully challenged the incumbent, Frederick Lye of the Liberal Party. At the next election in, Lye in turn defeated him. He then defeated Lee Martin of the Labour Party for the Raglan electorate in 1931, but lost Raglan to Martin with the landslide to Labour in 1935.[8]

Later life and death

In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[9] Reid died on 6 May 1952 and was buried at Paterangi Cemetery.[10] His wife died in July 1959 and was buried in the same grave.[11] [12]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Mr. Andrew Reid . . 4 July 1925 . 26 December 2014 . LVI . 156 . 11.
  2. Web site: Birth Search . . 26 December 2014 . Search for birth certificate 1867/15591 . BDM Online.
  3. News: Mr. Walter Reid . . 4 July 1925 . 26 December 2014 . LXII . 19061 . 10.
  4. News: The Next Parliament . . 3 December 1931 . 25 December 2014 . LXVIII . 21046 . 11.
  5. Web site: Marriage Search . . 26 December 2014 . Search for marriage certificate 1897/4145 . BDM Online.
  6. News: Counties Association . . 17 July 1925 . 26 December 2014 . LXII . 19072 . 10.
  7. News: The Waikato Seat . . 5 September 1925 . 26 December 2014 . LXII . 19115 . 12.
  8. Book: Scholefield, Guy . Guy Scholefield

    . New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 . Guy Scholefield . 3rd . First ed. published 1913 . Govt. Printer . 1950 . Wellington . 134.

  9. News: Official jubilee medals . 6 May 1935 . . 16 November 2013 . 4.
  10. Web site: Daniel Stewart REID. Waipa District Council. 26 December 2014.
  11. Web site: Margaret Donnet Reid grave monument . Gravestone Photographic Resource . 26 December 2014.
  12. Web site: Margaret Donnet REID. Waipa District Council. 26 December 2014.