Paraone Reweti

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Paraone Reweti
Born	1916
Died	21 April 1996

Paraone Brown Reweti is a former New Zealand politician and Ratana morehu who won the Eastern Maori seat for Labour in 1967, in the by-election following the death of Puti Tipene Watene.

He held the seat unti 1981, when he retired.

[edit] Early life

Of Ngati-Ranginui ancestry, Reweti came to Parliament from a position as an executive member of the Mount Maunganui Watersiders' Union.

[edit] References

• Henderson, James Mcleod (1963). Ratana The Man, The Church, The Movement (1st ed.) A.H & A.W. Reed Ltd ISBN 0-589-00619-3.