Charles Robert Petrie
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Charles Robert Petrie (1882 – 1958) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
He represented the Hauraki electorate from 1935 to 1938, then the Otahuhu electorate from 1938 to 1949, when he retired.
Petrie was the sole Labour Member of Parliament to represent the Hauraki electorate in its history. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland and arrived in New Zealand in 1911. He was an active Presbyterian.
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- New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
- From the Cradle to the Grave: a biography of Michael Joseph Savage by Barry Gustafson (1986, Reed Methuen, Auckland) ISBN 0474001385 (in Biographical Appendix, page 294)
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