Name Ritchie Macdonald | ||
Ritchie Macdonald (8 September 1895 – 14 March 1987) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
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Personal life
He was born in Scotland, and died in Auckland aged 91. After farming in the Waikato, he worked at the Otahuhu Railway Workshops and became a union secretary.
Political career
He represented the Ponsonby electorate from 1946 to 1963, and then the Grey Lynn electorate from 1963 to 1969, when he retired. The then Mayor of Auckland Sir Dove-Myer Robinson said about him when he retired: His is the old style of personal assistance. The majority of modern politicians do not know what that means.
Robert Chapman said that the Parliamentary superannuation scheme (introduced in 1946) .... encouraged thoughts of retirement even among Labour's sempiternal back-benchers for, after all, Ritchie Macdonald did retire, not die, in the end.