Philip De La Perrelle

[1] He was a newspaper proprietor and owned the Lake Country Press from age 21, and the Winton Record from 1912.

[2] He represented the Southland electorate of Awarua in Parliament from 1922 when he defeated John Ronald Hamilton of the Reform Party.

Hamilton won the electorate back in 1925, but De La Perrelle won it again in 1928 and held it to 1935, when he retired due to indifferent health, and he died within days of the 1935 election.

[1][3] He was a cabinet minister in the Ward and Forbes Ministries of the United Government from 1928 to 1931; Internal Affairs (1928–1931).

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