Butcher, Honourable David John Biography 1991

BUTCHER, Hon David John
Business Consultant; Former Minister of the Crown
Born Brighton, England, 19 September 1948; arrived in NZ, 1963.
Son of Frank George Butcher and Dorothy May (née Guppy); married Mary Georgina Hall, daughter of George and Sylvia Hall, 1980.
Education: Karamu High School, Hastings; Victoria University, Bachelor of Arts.
Research Officer, Department of Labour, Wages Tribunal and Industrial Commission; Field Officer, Clerical, Labourers Unions, 1976-1978; Former Delegate, Hawke’s Bay Trades Council(Convenor, Education Committee); Former Secretary, HB Sub-branch, NZ Association of Economists, NZ Labourers’ Union, Wellington Clerical Union: Former Member: Hawke’s Bay Community College Cl, Hawke’s Bay Regional Development Cl; active number years in Labour Party youth movement as Executive Member, Secretary, President; Party Rep, International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) conferences; Member, IUSY investigation team, Malaysian General Election, 1974; Member Labour Party Cl, 1971-1972, 1982-1984; Labour Candidate Hawke’s Bay 1969, 1972, 1975; Member of Parliament (Labour) Hastings, 1978-1990; Convenor, Caucus Committees on Energy, Development, Economic Affairs, 1983; Opposition Spokesman, Energy, 1982-1984; Parliamentary Under-Secretary to Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Lands and Forests, 1984-1987; Minister of Energy, Minister of Regional Development, Associate Minister of Finance, 1987-1988; Minister of Commerce, Minister of Energy, Minister of Regional Development, 1988-1990; NZ Parliamentary Representative: Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference, Rome 1982, Commonwealth Parliamentary conference, Malaysia 1987; NZ Representative: Commonwealth Finance Ministers conference, Cyprus, World Bank/IMF conference, Berlin 1988.
Recreations: reading, music, tramping, jogging, miniature modelling.
Address: 3/29A Parkvale Road, Karori, Wellington.