Albert Ronald Guthrey OBE MC (15 January 1916 – 8 September 2008) was a New Zealand local politician.

[1] He saved himself by walking into town, buying a case of small apples, and because there was no tuck shop at school, was able to sell them at 100% mark-up.

He lay on the battlefield until a German burial party in a captured New Zealand truck found him and took him to a hospital.

[1] Guthrey contested the Christchurch South electorate in the 1943 election for the National Party and came a distant second to the incumbent, Labour's Robert Macfarlane.

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1968 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to local government.

The outcry from opponents to the scheme and the 1971 local body election result put a stop to the work.

[1] After having lost a leg in the war, he returned to New Zealand and continued to play sports (tennis and golf).

He was a vice president and a Foundation Representative of the Finance Committee of the New Zealand Paraplegic & Physically Disabled Federation from 1978 to 1986.

"[15] Son of Ron is John Guthrey, famously known for his outspoken character, and his controversial cardboard coffins.