Sam Day All politics is local. What a cliched saying! Yet in New Zealand, that edict is demonstrably true. Few people in our parliament, however, have demonstrated the force of local politics as strongly as William Andrew Veitch, the member for Whanganui from 1911 to 1935. Veitch was not born in Whanganui, but rather in Perthshire, Scotland, in 1870. He did not retire in Whanganui either, instead living out his last years on the Kāpiti Coast. But it is beyond doubt that Veitch was a product of Whanganui and its politics. How?
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