Philip Connolly

Parliament of New Zealand
Years Term Electorate Party
19431946 27th Dunedin West Labour
19461949 28th Dunedin Central Labour
19491951 29th Dunedin Central Labour
19511954 30th Dunedin Central Labour
19541957 31st Dunedin Central Labour
19571960 32nd Dunedin Central Labour
19601963 33rd Dunedin Central Labour

Philip George Connolly (1899–1970) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

He represented the Dunedin West electorate from 1943 to 1946, and then the Dunedin Central electorate from 1946 to 1963, when he retired.[1]

He had previously worked in the NZR Hillside Workshops, and in World War II served in the Royal New Zealand Navy in the Atlantic and Pacific, commanding minesweeper HMS Deodar and antisubmarine vessel HMNZS Moa.

He was a Cabinet Minister, and was Minister of Defence from 12 December 1957 to 12 December 1960 in the Second Labour Government.[2]

Notes

  1. Wilson 1985, p. 190.
  2. Wilson 1985, p. 88.

References

New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by
Peter Neilson
Member of Parliament for Dunedin Central
1946–1963
Succeeded by
Brian MacDonell