Gordon Grieve

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Gordon Glendinning Grieve (1912–1993) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Biography

Parliament of New Zealand
Years	Term	Electorate	Party
1957–1960	32nd	Awarua	National
1960–1963	33rd	Awarua	National
1963–1966	34th	Awarua	National
1966–1969	35th	Awarua	National

Grieve was born in 1912 in Otahuti, Southland, a locality north-west of Invercargill. He attended Otahuti School and became a farmer. He was active with the Southland A & P Association.^[1]

He represented the Awarua electorate from 1957 to 1969, when he retired.^[2] A Presbyterian, in 1961 he was one of ten National MPs to vote with the Opposition and remove capital punishment for murder from the Crimes Bill that the Second National Government had introduced.

Notes

↑ Gustafson 1986, p. 316.
↑ Wilson 1985, p. 201.

References

Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6. |accessdate= requires |url= (help)
Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 (4 ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103. |accessdate= requires |url= (help)

New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by George Richard Herron	Member of Parliament for Awarua 1957–1969	Succeeded by Hugh Templeton

Persondata
Name	Grieve, Gordon
Alternative names	Gordo
Short description	New Zealand politician
Date of birth	1912
Place of birth
Date of death	1993
Place of death

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