John Chewings

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate Party
1969–1972 36th Invercargill National

John Guy Chewings (14 April 1920 – 12 September 1994) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Biography

Chewings was born in 1920 at Invercargill. He received his education at Waitaki Boys' High School. During World War II, he was a flying instructor for the Royal New Zealand Air Force.[1] He later took up farming in Mossburn.[2]

Chewings was selected on 17 September 1969 as the National Party candidate for the Invercargill electorate in the 1969 election, following the death of Ralph Hanan in July.[2] He represented Invercargill until 1972, when he was defeated.[3] He was one of four National Party incumbents from Otago and Southland who lost their normally blue electorate to the Labour challenger over the proposed raising of the lake levels of lakes Manapouri and Te Anau, which was opposed by the Save Manapouri campaign. Labour's election manifesto was for the lakes to remain at their natural levels.[4]

The year after his defeat, he moved to Whangārei.[1] In 1990, Chewings was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Gustafson 1986, p. 303.
  2. ^ a b "FARMER TO STAND". The Press. Papers Past. 19 September 1969.
  3. ^ Wilson 1985, p. 189.
  4. ^ White, Mike (30 June 2019). "Saving Manapōuri: The campaign that changed a nation". North & South. Archived from the original on 27 May 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
  5. ^ Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 96. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.

References

  • Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
  • Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 (4 ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Invercargill
1969–1972 		Succeeded by


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