Andy Sutherland
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Andrew Sinclair Sutherland CBE (13 September 1882 – 2 May 1961) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.
Biography
Sutherland was born in 1882 in Palmerston, Otago.[1] He was a member of the 9th New Zealand contingent (1902) to the Boer War.[2]
He contested the 1938 in the Raglan electorate against the incumbent, Labour's Lee Martin, but was unsuccessful.[3] He represented the Hauraki electorate from a 1942 by-election, caused by the death of John Manchester Allen,[4] to 1954, when he retired.[5] He was senior whip from 1950 to 1954.[6]
In 1953, Sullivan was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.[7] In the 1955 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for public services.[2][8]
