Peter Malone (Mayor)
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Peter Heywood Malone (22 March 1928 – 5 March 2006) was a
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veterinary surgeon Veterinary surgery is surgery performed on non-human animals by veterinarians, whereby the procedures fall into three broad categories: orthopaedics (bones, joints, muscles), soft tissue surgery (skin, body cavities, cardiovascular system, GI/u ...
and politician. He served as Mayor of Nelson from 1980 to 1992.


Early life and family

Malone was born in
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on 22 March 1928. He was the son of Robert Austin Malone and Helen Fergusson (née Minnis). He was married twice: first to Cynthia Bevis Jones; and in 1971 to Patricia Joan Knapp. He had five sons from his first marriage. Malone was the great-grandson of
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, a 19th-century member of the New Zealand Parliament, and the great-great-grandson of
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, who served as two separate terms as mayor of Manchester in the 1860s and 1870s. Malone was also the great-nephew of Lieutenant Colonel
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, who commanded the Wellington Infantry Battalion at
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. The athlete,
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, is Peter Malone's grandson. Malone was educated at
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from 1941 to 1944,
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(1946–1947), the
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(1948) and the
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. He graduated with a Bachelor of
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.


Veterinarian

From 1952 to 1957 Malone worked as a veterinary surgeon in
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near
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, and from 1957 to 1986 in Nelson. He also served on the New Zealand Hydatids Council and took particular interest in
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. Malone owned a 1947
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JB1 Aiglet, ZK-BWH, and used it for access to the remotest parts of the Nelson District in what was probably New Zealand's first "flying vet" service. Malone had initially leased the Auster from the Nelson Aero Club, but about 1960 bought it used it for the next 21 years. In 1981, when Mayor of Nelson, Malone donated the aircraft to the RNZAF Museum at
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.


Politics

Malone was a
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supporter and unsuccessfully stood in the
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and
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general elections and
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as the National Party Nelson electorate candidate. He also stood in
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for the Tasman electorate. In 1974 Malone was elected to the
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and served as a Councillor from 1974 to 1980 and then as Mayor from 1980 to 1992. Malone was appointed a justice of the peace in 1980, an
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, for services to the veterinary profession, in the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours, and a
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, for services to local government and the community, in the
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. He was also Chair of the Network Tasman Trust from 1995 until 2005 when he was forced to quit after being diagnosed with a rare nerve disorder,
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. This is a condition where severe pain can be triggered by such simple actions as brushing your teeth or touching your face, or even a slight breeze. Malone was quoted as saying: "At its worst even trying to talk or eat is extremely painful, and the drugs to try and knock that so you can live reasonably leave you drugged, as it were."


Sport and death

Malone played representative hockey and badminton. He died at Nelson on 5 March 2006.Nelson Evening Mail 14 March 2006


References

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