Charles Robert Petrie

Charles Robert Petrie MP


Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Otahuhu
In office 1938 – 1949
Preceded by	Seat established
Succeeded by	Leon Götz
Personal details
Born	1882 Glasgow, Scotland
Died	6 October 1958 Otahuhu, New Zealand
Political party	Labour

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

Petrie was born in Glasgow, Scotland and arrived in New Zealand in 1911. He was an active Presbyterian.

A shopkeeper in Otahuhu, 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 1931 election against Walter William Massey of the Reform Party. He represented the Hauraki electorate from 1935 to 1938, then the Otahuhu electorate from 1938 to 1949, 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.