Andrew_Sutherland_(politician)

Andy Sutherland

Andrew Sinclair Sutherland CBE (13 September 1882 – 2 May 1961) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Sutherland in 1938

Biography

Sutherland was born in 1882 in Palmerston, Otago.[1] He was a member of the 9th New Zealand contingent (1902) to the Boer War.[2]

He contested the 1938 in the Raglan electorate against the incumbent, Labour's Lee Martin, but was unsuccessful.[3] He represented the Hauraki electorate from a 1942 by-election, caused by the death of John Manchester Allen,[4] to 1954, when he retired.[5] He was senior whip from 1950 to 1954.[6]

In the 1955 Queen's Birthday Honours, Sutherland was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for public services.[2][7]


Notes

  1. "Sutherland, Andrew Sinclair – SA8079 – Army". Archives New Zealand. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  2. "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. p. 4. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  3. Wilson 1985, p. 237.
  4. Wilson 1985, p. 280.
  5. "No. 40499". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 9 June 1955. p. 3302.

References

  • Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
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