Gordon Grieve

Gordon Grieve

Gordon Glendinning Grieve (born 1912, Otahuti, Southland, New Zealand - died 1993) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

He represented the Awarua electorate from 1957 to 1969, when he retired. In 1961 he was one of ten National MPs to vote with the Opposition and remove capital punishment for murder from the Crimes Bill that the Second National Government had introduced.

References

  • New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, 4th edition, Government Printer, Wellington)
  • The First 50 Years: A History of the New Zealand National Party by Barry Gustafson (1986, Reed Methuen, Auckland; biographical appendix of National MPs, page 316) ISBN 0474001776



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