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Duncan McFadyen Rae (2 June 1888 – 3 February 1964) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Biography

Rae was born in

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in 1888. He received his education at Knox College and at

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, where he gained an MA and a diploma of education. He was in the NZEF in World War I. He taught at East Cape School in Invercargill for ten years, and was then Vice-Principal (1924–1929) then Principal (1929–1947) at the Auckland Teachers' Training College. He represented the

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electorates of from

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to 1954, and then from

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(succeeding

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) to 1960, when he retired. Rae suggested that an organisation for the protection of the country's heritage should be set up and put in a

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in 1953. Whilst this did not proceed, the

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(of which he was a member) took responsibility of the issue and the Historic Places Act 1954 was passed, which established the National Historic Places Trust as a

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(NGO). This organisation has since evolved as an autonomous

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known as

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. He was made Consul-General to Indonesia (1961–1963) then Chargé d'Affaires to Indonesia (1963). He was appointed a

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in the

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. He died suddenly on 3 February 1964 in Auckland.

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