Charles Robert Petrie (1882 – 6 October 1958) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

Biography

Petrie was born in

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, Scotland and arrived in New Zealand in 1911. He was an active Presbyterian. A shopkeeper in

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, he was first elected to the Otahuhu Borough Council in 1924, and served as mayor between 1935 and 1944. Petrie unsuccessfully contested the Hauraki electorate in the against

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of the Reform Party. He represented the Hauraki electorate from

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to 1938, then the Otahuhu electorate from

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, when he retired. He died in 1958 and was buried at Otahuhu Cemetery. Petrie was the sole Labour Member of Parliament to represent the Hauraki electorate in its history.

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