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526:. His mother was the president of the Dunedin women's branch of the Labour Party and wrote articles for several socialist publications. He was politically active himself from a very early age. As a 12-year-old schoolboy, he walked Dunedin streets delivering pamphlets for the Labour Party.
949:. At the 1982 Labour conference Connelly was loudly booed while on the speaking platform when he defended police using batons for defence while speaking against a remit to disband use of riot squads and cease baton use. It was seen as an indignant end to his long political career.
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Zealand and the Pacific until 1946. After the war ended he resumed his study and graduated Bachelor of Commerce and became a chartered accountant. He then worked for several government departments. He moved to
874:, when he retired. Connelly was described as New Zealand's last old-fashioned "tubthumping" political campaigner. He conducted much of his electioneering by street-corner orations from the bed of a truck in which he travelled his electorate.
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Party MPs. A son said "he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and he expected others to do the same. He did not believe in handouts, but in promoting export-led economic development, which would give ordinary people a fair go."
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taking up a position as an investigating officer with
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