Robert Anderson (New Zealand politician)

Parliament of New Zealand
Years Term Electorate Party
19871990 42nd Kaimai National
19901993 43rd Kaimai National
19931996 44th Kaimai National

Robert Arnold Anderson (22 January 1936 – 24 October 1996) was a New Zealand politician. He was a National Party MP from 1987 to 1996. He was first elected to Parliament in the 1987 elections as MP for Kaimai, replacing Bruce Townshend.

He left Parliament at the 1996 elections. He had been selected as National candidate for the new seat of Coromandel which replaced Kaimai, but withdrew due to illness (cancer). He was replaced by Murray McLean, who won the seat in 1996, but lost in the 1999 election.

He was born in Epsom, England on 22 January 1936, and educated in England and Southern Rhodesia. He had been a local board chairman from 1983 to 1987 and a member of the Local Government Commission. He died at Mt Maunganui on 24 October 1996.[1]

References

  1. "Lives of note". Evening Post. 31 October 1996. p. 5.