Born in Glasgow; employed in co-operative movement 1897-1911; arrived NZ 1911; 8 years in South Island managing co-op store Blackball, and various businesses; 1919 manager retail store Auckland; storekeeping in Otahuhu from 1922-1950s. 12 years chairman of Otahuhu District High School; borough councillor 1924-1931, mayor 1934-1944 (retired). Contested Hauraki seat 1928 and 1931, MP for Hauraki 1935, for Otahuhu 1938-1949 (retired). On various committees and boards. See `Who's who in NZ' 1951.
Petrie, Charles Robert, 1882-1958
Notes - Payne-Potroz
From: Roth, Herbert Otto, 1917-1994: Collected papers, personal papers, photographs and ephemera
Reference: MS-Papers-6164-077
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Personalities - Men - Surnames, Pa - Pe
Date: [1924-1951]
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-211
Description: Portraits of men whose name begin with Pa to Pe. Names not entered in Name Field include: Captain Paul (Union Steam Ship Co), 1930s; Franklin Peterspn (London Times), 1926; Y Petra (tennis player), 1946; General Pau; Maharajah of Patiala, 1930; Viscount Peel (Secretary of State for India); Dr Petit of Auckland; Lord Passfield, 1929; Damien Parer (Australian war photographer), 1943; Giuseppe Pella, 1949; Captain Perkins; Wallabhai Patel, 1927. Quantity: 63 b&w original photographic print(s).
Parsons, Marie :Album of autographed photographs of Government Members of Parliament, 1938
Date: 1938
Reference: PA1-o-1190
Description: Album of 56 autographed photographs of government members of the House of Representatives in the 25th Parliament, the first Labour Government, taken in 1938 by unknown photographers. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Leather covered album, 12.9 x 16.5 cm, containing 56 black and white, silver gelatin photographs, 11.9 x 8 cm
Members of the House of Representatives in the twenty-fifth Parliament
Date: 1935
From: S P Andrew Ltd :Portrait negatives
Reference: 1/1-018613-F
Description: Shows members of the House of Representatives in the twenty fifth Parliament. From top, left to right: - C M Williams, J W Munro, Colonel J Hargest, W J Lyon, E J Howard, W M C Denham, W P Endean, H M Christie, G H O Wilson, A F Moncur, C A Barrell, W J Jordan, B Roberts, W E Barnard (Speaker), D McDougall, H E Herring, A H Nordmeyer, E P Meachen, R McKeen, J O'Brien, D W Coleman, D G Sullivan, M J Savage, P C Webb, T D Burnett, A G Osborne, J Thorn, A S Richards, A G Hultquist, C H Chapman, S G Smith, W J Polson, K J Holyoake, Dr D G McMillan, D Barnes, J G Barclay, F Jones, W Nash, W L Martin, H G R Mason, Captain Rushworth, H G Dickie, A C A Sexton, G W Forbes, W J Broadfoot, Sir A Ransom, P Fraser, W E Parry, Robert Semple, R Coulter, W A Bodkin, Sir Apirana Ngata, T Henare, E T Tirikatene, H T Ratana, C L Carr, J L McIlroy, J G Coates, C A Wilkinson, W T Anderton, P Neilson, H T Armstrong, J A Lee, F Langstone, E L Cullen, C H Burnett, A Campbell, G Lowry, A Hamilton, J G Cobbe, S G Holland, H Atmore, J Hodgens, A J Manson (Sergeant-at-arms), T H McCombs, J B F Cotterell, R A Wright, J Robertson, C L Hunter, F W Schramm, C R Petrie, H S S Kyle and T D H Hall (Clerk of the House). Photograph taken by Stanley Polkinghorne Andrew in 1935. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).