Charles Robert Petrie (1882 – 6 October 1958) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

Biography

Petrie was born in

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, Scotland and arrived in New Zealand in 1911. He was an active Presbyterian. A shopkeeper in Otahuhu, he was first elected to the Otahuhu Borough Council in 1924, and served as mayor between 1935 and 1944. Petrie unsuccessfully contested the

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electorate in the against Walter William Massey of the Reform Party. He represented the Hauraki electorate from

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to 1938, then the Otahuhu electorate from

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, when he retired. He died in 1958 and was buried at Otahuhu Cemetery. Petrie was the sole Labour

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to represent the Hauraki electorate in its history.

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* * 1882 births 1958 deaths New Zealand Labour Party MPs Scottish emigrants to New Zealand Mayors of places in the Auckland Region Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives New Zealand MPs for Auckland electorates New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates Burials at Otahuhu Cemetery Politicians from Glasgow New Zealand Presbyterians Unsuccessful candidates in the 1931 New Zealand general election {{NZLabour-politician-stub