Arnold Reedy
Hānara Tangiāwhā Te Ōhakī "Arnold" Reedy OBE (16 August 1903 – 8 April 1971) was a New Zealand tribal leader, farmer and soldier. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngāti Porou iwi. He was born in Whareponga, East Coast, New Zealand, on 16 August 1903. He was the eldest son of Materoa Reedy, née Ngarimu, and John Marshall Reedy, himself the eldest son of Thomas Tyne Reedy, an Irishman, and Mihi Takawhenua Ngawiki Tuhou.[1] Hekia Parata, a former member of Parliament, is his granddaughter.[2] He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to the Māori people, in the 1970 Queen's Birthday Honours.[3]
He was educated at Napier Boys' High School and Gisborne Boys' High School. He was a captain in the Māori Battalion in World War II, serving alongside his cousin Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu, and returned to farming after the war.[1] He was a foundation member of the New Zealand Maori Council for ten years, and was chairman of the Horouta Tribal Executive between 1956 and 1970. In 1949 he was a Māori member of the New Zealand delegation to the United Nations.[4]
He contested the Eastern Māori seat several times; in 1957 and 1960 (when he came second) for Social Credit Party and in 1963, 1966 and the 1967 by-election for National Party.[5]
References
- ^ a b Reedy, Maraki Tautuhi Orongo; Walker, Miria Hine Tapu Te Ariki. "Reedy, Hānara Tangiāwhā Te Ōhakī". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
- ^ Parata, Hekia (9 December 2008). "Maiden statements". New Zealand National Party. Archived from the original on 10 February 2015. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- ^ "No. 45119". The London Gazette (3rd supplement). 13 June 1970. p. 6406.
- ^ Obituary in the Gisborne Herald, 10 April 1971
- ^ Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years: A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. p. 383. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.