Paddy Blanchfield

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Patrick (Paddy) Blanchfield MBE (1911-1980) was a Labour Member of Parliament for Westland and the West Coast.

[edit] Member of Parliament

Paddy Blanchfield represented Westland between 1960 and 1972 and the West Coast from 1972 to 1978.

He was awarded an MBE in 1978.

[edit] Further reading

• Blanchfield, Paddy (1971), The Ballads of a Coaster, Palmerston North, [N.Z.]: New Zealand Books 

• Wilson, James Oakley (1985), New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 (4th ed.), Wellington, [N.Z.]: Government Printer 

• Wood, G. Antony (ed.) (1996), Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament, Dunedin, [N.Z.]: University of Otago Press