Gordon Grieve

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|end = 1960

|term = 32nd

|electorate = {{NZ electorate link|Awarua}}

|party = New Zealand National Party

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|start = {{NZ election link year|1960}}

|end = 1963

|term = 33rd

|electorate = Awarua

|party = New Zealand National Party

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|start = {{NZ election link year|1963}}

|end = 1966

|term = 34th

|electorate = Awarua

|party = New Zealand National Party

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|start = {{NZ election link year|1966}}

|end = 1969

|term = 35th

|electorate = Awarua

|party = New Zealand National Party

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Grieve was born in 1912 in Otahuti, Southland, a locality north-west of Invercargill. He attended Otahuti School and became a farmer.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=316}} On 20 April 1938, he married Ena (Willena) Young, the daughter of William Young, at St Paul's Church in Invercargill. Her family was also from Otahuti and her father was to become a member of the Legislative Council in 1950. They were to have three daughters.{{cite news |title=Obituary – Mr. W. Young |newspaper=The Southland Times |date=30 May 1959 }}{{cite book |title=Who's Who in New Zealand, 1968 |last=Petersen |first=George Conrad |authorlink=George Petersen (historian) |year=1968 |edition=9th |publisher=A.H. & A.W. Reed |location=Wellington |page=163}}{{cite news |title=Weddings |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19380507.2.90 |access-date=3 October 2024 |work=The Southland Times |issue=23502 |date=7 May 1938 |page=9}}

Grieve was a rugby referee for 15 years. He was president of the Central Southland Rugby Referees' Association from 1949 to 1955. He was active with the Southland A & P Association and at shows, he judged and inspected cattle and sheep. In 1946, he was the foundation president of the Southland Southdown Breeders Club. He was an advisory member for the Young Farmers' Club. He was a board member of the Presbyterian Social Services Association, the Historic Places Trust, and the Licensing Trust in Invercargill.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=316}}

For 14 years, he was the secretary of the local branch of the National Party. He represented the Awarua electorate from 1957 to 1969, when he retired.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=316}}{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=201}} A Presbyterian, in 1961 he was one of ten National MPs to vote with the Opposition and remove capital punishment for murder from the Crimes Bill that the Second National Government had introduced. In 1967, he was junior whip for the National Party (with Alfred E. Allen as senior whip).{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=280}}

In the 1980 Queen's Birthday Honours, Grieve was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services.{{London Gazette |issue=48214 |date=14 June 1980 |page=40 |supp=3}}

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• {{cite book |last = Gustafson |first = Barry |title = The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party |year = 1986 |publisher = Reed Methuen |location = Auckland |isbn = 0-474-00177-6 }}
• {{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |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}}

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{{S-bef | before = George Richard Herron }}

{{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Awarua| years=1957–1969}}

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