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Brown Reweti
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Eastern Maori
In office
12 August 1967 – 28 November 1981
Preceded byPuti Tipene Watene
Succeeded byPeter Tapsell
Personal details
Born(1916-11-17)17 November 1916
Died21 April 1996(1996-04-21) (aged 79)
Political partyLabour

Paraone Brown Reweti QSO (17 November 1916 – 21 April 1996) was a New Zealand politician and Rātana morehu.

Early life[edit]

OfNgāti Ranginui ancestry, Reweti came to Parliament from a position as an executive member of the Mount Maunganui Watersiders' Union.[1]

Political career[edit]

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate Party
1967–1969 35th Eastern Maori Labour
1969–1972 36th Eastern Maori Labour
1972–1975 37th Eastern Maori Labour
1975–1978 38th Eastern Maori Labour
1978–1981 39th Eastern Maori Labour

Reweti won the Eastern Maori electorate for Labour, in the 1967 by-election following the death of Puti Tipene Watene. He held the electorate until 1981, when he retired.[2]

From 1973 to 1975, during the Third Labour Government, he was chairman of the parliamentary Māori Affairs Committee.[3] In January 1976 he was appointed by Labour leader Bill Rowling as Shadow Minister of Marine.[4]

In the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, Reweti was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Henderson, James Mcleod (1963). Ratana The Man, The Church, The Movement (1st ed.) A.H & A.W. Reed Ltd ISBN 0-589-00619-3.
  • ^ Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840-1984 (4 ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. p. 229. OCLC 154283103.
  • ^ "Chairs of the Māori Affairs Committee". New Zealand Parliament. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  • ^ "Surprises Among Party Spokesmen". The New Zealand Herald. 30 January 1976. p. 10.
  • ^ "No. 52174". The London Gazette. 16 June 1990. p. 30.
  • New Zealand Parliament
    Preceded by

    Puti Tipene Watene

    Member of Parliament for Eastern Maori
    1967–1981
    Succeeded by

    Peter Tapsell


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