Andy Sutherland

Andrew Sinclair Sutherland CBE (13 September 1882 – 2 May 1961) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Sutherland in 1938

Biography

New Zealand Parliament

Years	Term	Electorate		Party
1942–1943	26th	Hauraki			National
1943–1946	27th	Hauraki			National
1946–1949	28th	Hauraki			National
1949–1951	29th	Hauraki			National
1951–1954	30th	Hauraki			National

Sutherland was born in 1882 in Palmerston, Otago.^[1] He was a member of the 9th New Zealand contingent (1902) to the Boer War.^[2]

He contested the 1938 in the Raglan electorate against the incumbent, Labour's Lee Martin, but was unsuccessful.^[3] He represented the Hauraki electorate from a 1942 by-election, caused by the death of John Manchester Allen,^[4] to 1954, when he retired.^[5] He was senior whip from 1950 to 1954.^[6]

In the 1955 Queen's Birthday Honours, Sutherland was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for public services.^[2][7]

Notes

1. "Sutherland, Andrew Sinclair – SA8079 – Army". Archives New Zealand. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
2. Gustafson 1986, p. 345.
3. "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. p. 4. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
4. Gustafson 1986, p. 297.
5. Wilson 1985, p. 237.
6. Wilson 1985, p. 280.
7. "No. 40499". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 9 June 1955. p. 3302.

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) [1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.

New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by John Manchester Allen	Member of Parliament for Hauraki 1942–1954	Succeeded by Arthur Kinsella