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Jenny Kirk (politician)
Jennifer
Norah Kirk
is a former
New Zealand
politician
of the
Labour Party
.
She represented the
Birkenhead
electorate
from the
1987 election
; when she
defeated
the National
candidate for the seat,
Barry Gustafson
, after
Jim McLay
retired
.
In
1990
she was defeated by the new
National
candidate,
Ian Revell
.
In
1993
, Kirk was
awarded
the
New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal
. In the
2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours
, she was
appointed
a
Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit
, for services to local-body and
community
affairs.