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Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Obituaries — William Rex Austin MBE

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🗣️ Speech Sir Rt Hon Trevor Mallard (New Zealand Labour Party — List Member)
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Members, I regret to inform the House of the death on 23 June 2022 of William Rex Austin MBE of Ngāi Tahu, Waitaha, and Kāti Māmoe, who was a National Party member representing the Awarua electorate from 1975 to 1987. During his membership of this House he served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Fisheries, and he chaired the Māori Affairs Committee. I desire on behalf of this House to express our sense of the loss we have sustained and the sympathy with the relatives of the late former member. I now ask members to stand with me and observe a period of silence as a mark of respect to his memory.

Members stood as a mark of respect.

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