Paraone Reweti

{{Short description|New Zealand politician}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Brown Reweti | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|QSO|size=100%}} | image = | caption = | constituency_MP2 = Eastern Maori | parliament2 = New Zealand | term_start2 = 12 August 1967 | term_end2 = 28 November 1981 | predecessor2 = Puti Tipene Watene | successor2 = Peter Tapsell | birth_date = {{birth date|1916|11|17|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1996|4|21|1916|11|17|df=y}} | death_place = | party = Labour | spouse = }} '''Paraone Brown Reweti''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|QSO}} (17 November 1916 – 21 April 1996) was a New Zealand politician and Rātana morehu.

==Early life== Of Ngāti Ranginui ancestry, Reweti came to Parliament from a position as an executive member of the Mount Maunganui Watersiders' Union.<ref>Henderson, James Mcleod (1963). ''Ratana The Man, The Church, The Movement'' (1st ed.) A.H & A.W. Reed Ltd {{ISBN|0-589-00619-3}}.</ref>

==Political career== {{NZ parlbox header|nolist=true|align=left}} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{By-election link year|Eastern Maori|1967}} |end = 1969 |term = 35th |electorate = Eastern Maori |party = New Zealand Labour Party }} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1969}} |end = 1972 |term = 36th |electorate = Eastern Maori |party = New Zealand Labour Party }} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1972}} |end = 1975 |term = 37th |electorate = Eastern Maori |party = New Zealand Labour Party }} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1975}} |end = 1978 |term = 38th |electorate = Eastern Maori |party = New Zealand Labour Party }} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1978}} |end = 1981 |term = 39th |electorate = Eastern Maori |party = New Zealand Labour Party }} {{End}} Reweti won the Eastern Maori electorate for Labour, in the {{By-election link|Eastern Maori|1967}} following the death of Puti Tipene Watene. He held the electorate until 1981, when he retired.<ref name="Wilson">{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= Jim | author-link=Jim Wilson (librarian) |title= New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840-1984 |edition= 4 |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103 |page= 229}}</ref>

From 1973 to 1975, during the Third Labour Government, he was chairman of the parliamentary Māori Affairs Committee.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.parliament.nz/en/visit-and-learn/history-and-buildings/te-komiti-whiriwhiri-take-maori-150/chairs-of-the-maori-affairs-committee/ |title=Chairs of the Māori Affairs Committee |date=20 September 2021 |website=New Zealand Parliament |access-date=30 March 2022 }}</ref> In January 1976 he was appointed by Labour leader Bill Rowling as Shadow Minister of Marine.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Surprises Among Party Spokesmen |date=30 January 1976 |work=The New Zealand Herald |page=10 }}</ref>

In the 1990 Queen's Birthday Honours, Reweti was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=52174 |date=16 June 1990 |page=30 |suppl=2}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

{{s-start}} {{s-par | nz}} {{s-bef | before = Puti Tipene Watene }} {{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Eastern Maori | years=1967–1981 }} {{s-aft | after= Peter Tapsell }} {{end}}

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