Percy Allen (politician)

Percy Benjamin Allen QSO (30 June 1913 – 19 September 1992) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

[1] He participated in World War II and served in the Pacific, Italy and Egypt, where he was wounded at El Alamein.

[2] He represented the Bay of Plenty electorate in Parliament from 1957, when he won the 1957 by-election after the resignation of Bill Sullivan, until 1975, when he retired because of ill-health.

He was appointed as Minister of Works by Keith Holyoake on 20 December 1963,[4] succeeding Stan Goosman, who had retired at the 1963 election.

His ministerial roles finished when the Third Labour Government took over on 8 December 1972.