Edward Healy

Healy was born near Blenheim in 1869. He was educated at a state school and initially was a blacksmith for 16 years. He then imported bicycles, and became a stock and station agent, and an auctioneer. He sold his business to Dalgety and worked for them for the next five years. Afterwards, he purchased a sheep and cattle farm, but retired from that venture in 1920.{{cite news|title=The New Members|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH19281116.2.95|access-date=16 March 2015|work=The New Zealand Herald|volume=LXV|issue=20105|date=16 November 1928|page=14}}

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Healy was a member of a number of organisations. He was on the Pelorus Road Board, Wairau Licensing Committee, various school committees in both Canterbury and Marlborough, and the Marlborough Patriotic Committee. At the time of election to the House of Representatives, he was a member of the Wairau Hospital Board.

He won the Wairau electorate in 1928, but was defeated in 1935{{sfn|Wilson|1985|pp=204}} by Labour's Ted Meachen.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19381014.2.154 | title=Candidates for tomorrow's election | work=The Evening Post | date=14 October 1938 | access-date=3 August 2013 | volume=CXXVI | issue=91 | page=18}} In the {{NZ election link|1938}}, Meachen and Healy (this time standing for National) contested the {{NZ electorate link|Marlborough}} electorate, but Meachen was again successful.{{cite web | url=https://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1939-I.2.3.2.36 | title=The General Election, 1938 | publisher=National Library | access-date=8 February 2012 | year=1939 | page=3}}

From 1930 until 1931 he was the United Party's junior whip.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|pp=280}}

During the Great Depression, the government stopped work on the Main North Line between Wharanui and Parnassus. A 500-strong protest march by Marlborough residents was led by Healy, and he later crossed the floor in Parliament on the issue.{{cite news | date=26 May 2010 | first1=Cherie | last1=Howie | url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/features/history/3735962/Battling-the-leanest-times | title=Battling the leanest times | work=The Marlborough Express | access-date=15 March 2015}}

In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19350506.2.12 | title=Official jubilee medals | date=6 May 1935 | volume=CXIX | issue=105 | work=Evening Post | access-date=17 March 2015 | page=4}}

Healy was involved with many sporting codes, including horse racing, trotting, football, bowling, and cycling. He represented Marlborough and Canterbury in rugby union. He held executive positions with the Wairau Valley Racing Club, the Pelorus Hack Racing Club, the Nelson Jockey Club, and the Nelson Trotting Club. In earlier years, he raced horses himself. Later on, he acted as a judge of horses and stock at agricultural shows.

Healy married Mary Jane Bishop in 1895.{{cite web | url=https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Search/Search.aspx?Path=%2fqueryEntry.m%3ftype%3dmarriages | title=Marriage Search | publisher=Department of Internal Affairs | access-date=17 March 2015 | quote=Search for registration number "1895/2630"}} He died on 23 August 1954 and is buried at Tuamarina Cemetery near Blenheim.{{cite web |url=http://www.marlborough.govt.nz/Services/Cemeteries/Search.aspx?id=905&plotid=969 |title=Cemetery records search |date= |website= |publisher=Marlborough District Council |access-date=17 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304235848/http://www.marlborough.govt.nz/Services/Cemeteries/Search.aspx?id=905&plotid=969 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }} His wife died in 1966.{{cite web | url=https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Search/Search.aspx?Path=%2fqueryEntry.m%3ftype%3ddeaths | title=Death Search | publisher=Department of Internal Affairs | access-date=17 March 2015 | quote=Search for registration number "1966/32718"}}

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• {{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103}}

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{{S-bef | before = William Girling}}

{{S-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Wairau|years=1928–1935 }}

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Category:1869 births

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