Neil Morrison

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Parliament of New Zealand
Years	Term	Electorate	Party
1984–1985	41st	Pakuranga	Social Credit
1985–1987	Changed allegiance to:		Democrats

Neil Joseph Morrison (1938 – 19 September 2007) was a New Zealand politician of the Social Credit Party.

He won the Pakuranga seat in the 1984 election by 419 votes, from two-term MP Pat Hunt. Garry Knapp retained East Coast Bays, but the party leader Bruce Beetham lost his Rangitikei seat.

In 1986 Beetham lost the leadership of the party to Morrison. On the night he was elected, the new leader implied in a TV interview that the Social Credit national dividend policy was out of date and would be dropped. This was in response to a question from the interviewer, which he might not have listened to carefully. The next day when Beetham said he was considering resigning because the new leadership was rejecting basic Social Credit philosophy, Morrison publicly retracted his comment and affirmed that the national dividend would remain an important part of Social Credit policy.

In the 1987 election Morrison was defeated by National candidate Maurice Williamson, and Knapp was defeated by another National candidate. See Social Credit Party (New Zealand).

He was a Manukau City Councillor, and about to run for re-election when he died in 2007.

References

Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
New Zealand Herald obituary

New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by Pat Hunt	Member of Parliament for Pakuranga 1984–1987	Succeeded by Maurice Williamson

v t e Democrats for Social Credit

Party Leaders	Wilfrid Owen P.H. Matthews Vernon Cracknell John O'Brien Bruce Beetham Neil Morrison John Wright Grant Gillon Stephnie de Ruyter

Former Parliamentarians	Vernon Cracknell Bruce Beetham Gary Knapp Neil Morrison Grant Gillon John Wright

Noted activists	Terry Heffernan Frank Langstone Roly Marks

Related articles	John A. Lee Country Party New Democratic Party Alliance Progressive Coalition

Social Credit

Movements

Canada	Abolitionist Party of Canada British Columbia Social Credit Party Canada Party Christian Credit Party Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform Les Démocrates Manitoba Social Credit Party New Democracy Pauper Party of Ontario Parti crédit social uni Pilgrims of Saint Michael Ralliement créditiste Ralliement créditiste du Québec Social Credit Board Alberta Social Credit Party Social Credit Party of Canada Social Credit Party of New Brunswick Social Credit Party of Ontario Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan

Oceania	Australian League of Rights Douglas Credit Party New Zealand Democratic Party for Social Credit Social Credit Party Solomon Islands Social Credit Party

United Kingdom	British People's Party Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

People

History

Category
Politics

Persondata
Name	Morrison, Neil
Alternative names
Short description	New Zealand politician
Date of birth	1938
Place of birth
Date of death	19 September 2007
Place of death

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