Ritchie Macdonald
Ritchie Macdonald | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Grey Lynn | |
| In office 30 November 1963 – 29 November 1969 | |
| Preceded by | Reginald Keeling |
| Succeeded by | Eddie Isbey |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Ponsonby | |
| In office 27 November 1946 – 30 November 1963 | |
| Preceded by | seat established |
| Succeeded by | seat abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 September 1895 Scotland |
| Died | 14 March 1987 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Political party | Labour |
Ritchie Macdonald (8 September 1895 – 14 March 1987) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
Personal life
He was born in Scotland, and died in Auckland aged 91. After farming in the Waikato, he worked at the Otahuhu Railway Workshops and became a union secretary.
Political career
| Years | Term | Electorate | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946–1949 | 28th | Ponsonby | Labour | ||
| 1949–1951 | 29th | Ponsonby | Labour | ||
| 1951–1954 | 30th | Ponsonby | Labour | ||
| 1954–1957 | 31st | Ponsonby | Labour | ||
| 1957–1960 | 32nd | Ponsonby | Labour | ||
| 1960–1963 | 33rd | Ponsonby | Labour | ||
| 1963–1966 | 34th | Grey Lynn | Labour | ||
| 1966–1969 | 35th | Grey Lynn | Labour | ||
He represented the Ponsonby electorate from 1946 to 1963, and then the Grey Lynn electorate from 1963 to 1969, when he retired.[1]
Union secretary Tom Skinner was resentful of the fact that Macdonald had won the nomination for the safe seat of Ponsonby whilst he had been allocated the more marginal seat of Tamaki.[2] From 1958 to 1966 Macdonald was Labour's junior whip.[3]
The then Mayor of Auckland Sir Dove-Myer Robinson said about him when he retired: His is the old style of personal assistance. The majority of modern politicians do not know what that means.
Robert Chapman said that the Parliamentary superannuation scheme (introduced in 1946) .... encouraged thoughts of retirement even among Labour's sempiternal back-benchers for, after all, Ritchie Macdonald did retire, not die, in the end.[4]
Notes
- ^ Wilson 1985, pp. 214.
- ^ Freer 2004, pp. 33–4.
- ^ Wilson 1985, pp. 281.
- ^ New Zealand Politics and Social Patterns: selected works by Robert Chapman; page 266 (1999, Victoria University Press, Wellington) ISBN 0-86473-361-5
References
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Freer, Warren (2004). A Lifetime in Politics: the memoirs of Warren Freer. Wellington: Victoria University Press. ISBN 0-86473-478-6.
- "Old-style MP Dies". The New Zealand Herald. Auckland. 17 March 1987.
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