Gordon Glendinning Grieve (21 August 1912 – 17 October 1993) was a New Zealand politician of the

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Biography

Grieve was born in 1912 in Otahuti, Southland, a locality north-west of

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. He attended Otahuti School and became a farmer. On 20 April 1938, he married Ena (Willena) Young, the daughter of William Young, at St Paul's Church in Invercargill. Her family was also from Otahuti and her father was to become a member of the

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in 1950. They were to have three daughters. Grieve was a rugby referee for 15 years. He was president of the Central Southland Rugby Referees' Association from 1949 to 1955. He was active with the Southland A & P Association and at shows, he judged and inspected cattle and sheep. In 1946, he was the foundation president of the Southland Southdown Breeders Club. He was an advisory member for the Young Farmers' Club. He was a board member of the Presbyterian Social Services Association, the

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, and the Licensing Trust in Invercargill. For 14 years, he was the secretary of the local branch of the National Party. He represented the Awarua electorate from

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to 1969, when he retired. A

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, in 1961 he was one of ten National MPs to vote with the Opposition and remove

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for murder from the Crimes Bill that the

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had introduced. In 1967, he was junior whip for the National Party (with

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as senior whip). In the 1980 Queen's Birthday Honours, Grieve was appointed a

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for public services.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Grieve, Gordon 1912 births 1993 deaths Burials at Eastern Cemetery, Invercargill New Zealand National Party MPs Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives New Zealand MPs for South Island electorates Companions of the Queen's Service Order 20th-century New Zealand politicians