Bruce Gregory
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Bruce Craig Gregory (born 1937) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
In 1979 Matiu Rata, a Labour cabinet minister, resigned from the party, because he disagreed with the party’s Māori policy. In 1980 Rata resigned from parliament and founded the Mana Motuhake party. He then contested the ensuing Northern Māori by-election, hoping to get a mandate for the new party and for his change of allegiance.
However the by-election was won by Gregory who was the Labour Party candidate, though Rata came second with 991 fewer votes.
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New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
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