John Edie | |
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Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Bruce | |
In office 14 April 1920 –7 December 1922 | |
Preceded by | James Allen |
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Clutha | |
In office 7 December 1922 –4 November 1925 | |
Preceded by | Alexander Malcolm |
Succeeded by | Fred Waite |
Personal details | |
Born | 1856 Newcastle,New South Wales |
Died | 7 June 1928 Lawrence,New Zealand |
Political party | Liberal |
Occupation | Engineer |
John Edie (1856 –7 June 1928) was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in the Otago region of New Zealand. He was a surveyor and an engineer,and also spent time as a farmer. He was Mayor of Lawrence.
Edie was born in Newcastle,New South Wales in 1856. He came to New Zealand as a child and attended school in Waitahuna near Lawrence. [1] [2] He joined the survey department in 1873 and surveyed the Catlins River Branch railway line,but construction did not start until 1879. [1] In 1876,at age 20,he became assistant surveyor to the Government. [2]
He joined the Tuapeka County Council in 1885 as an engineer and remained in that position until 1919,when he resigned to stand in the 1919 election. [1]
Years | Term | Electorate | Party | ||
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1920 –1922 | 20th | Bruce | Liberal | ||
1922 –1925 | 21st | Clutha | Liberal |
In the 1896 election,Edie contested the Clutha electorate. [3] Before the election,he was criticised for standing for the Liberal Party,thus claiming to represent the working man,yet underpaying staff at his mine. [4] He was soundly beaten by the conservative incumbent,James Thomson. [5]
Edie contested the Bruce electorate in the 1919 election as a Liberal against the incumbent,Reform's James Allen. Edie was beaten by the small margin of 126 votes (2.15%). [6] After Allen's resignation in March 1920, [7] Edie won the Bruce electorate in a 1920 by-election. [8] [9] At the time of the election,he was Mayor of Lawrence. [2]
In the 1922 general election he won the Clutha electorate,but lost Clutha in 1925 to the Reform candidate Fred Waite. [10]
Edie was for a time captain of the Tuapeka Rifles. [11] He was into mining,especially gold mining,and had an interest in a mine at Island Block (a locality on State Highway 8 between Beaumont and Ettrick). [1] He shared an interest in a farm of 900 acres (360 ha) in Tuapeka West with two sons. [2] [11]
Edie died on 7 June 1928 at Lawrence after having been bed-ridden with heart problems for six months. [11]
His son,Herbert Kerr Edie,unsuccessfully contested the 1935 and 1938 elections in the Clutha electorate as a Labour Party candidate against James Roy. [12] [13] [14]
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