Andy Sutherland

Andrew Sinclair Sutherland was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.

Biography

Sutherland was born in 1882 in Palmerston, Otago. He was a member of the 9th New Zealand contingent to the Boer War.
He contested the in the electorate against the incumbent, Labour's Lee Martin, but was unsuccessful. He represented the Hauraki electorate from a, caused by the death of John Manchester Allen, to 1954, when he retired. He was senior whip from 1950 to 1954.
In 1953, Sullivan was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal. In the 1955 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for public services.