John Chewings

John Guy Chewings (14 April 1920 – 12 September 1994) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

New Zealand Parliament
Years	Term	Electorate		Party
1969–1972	36th	Invercargill		National

Biography

Chewings was born in 1920 at Invercargill. He received his education at Waitaki Boys' High School. During World War II, he was a flying instructor for the Royal New Zealand Air Force.[1]

He represented the Invercargill electorate in Parliament from 1969 to 1972, when he was defeated.[2] He was one of four National Party incumbents from Otago and Southland who lost their normally blue electorate to the Labour challenger over the proposed raising of the lake levels of lakes Manapouri and Te Anau, which was opposed by the Save Manapouri campaign. Labour's election manifesto was for the lakes to remain at their natural levels.[3]

The year after his defeat, he moved to Whangarei.[1] In 1990, Chewings was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[4]

Notes

1. Gustafson 1986, p. 303.
2. Wilson 1985, p. 189.
3. White, Mike (30 June 2019). "Saving Manapōuri: The campaign that changed a nation". North & South.
4. Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 96. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.

References

• Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.
• Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 (4 ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.