RIP George Gair

Stuff reports:

Long-serving National MP George Gair has died aged 88.

Gair was the MP for Auckland’s North Shore from 1966 to 1990, holding senior Cabinet posts, including Health, Transport, Energy, Housing and Rail.

He was also deputy leader of the National Party.

George Gair was a lovely man, and one of National’s best MPs of his generation. His politeness was legendary, and a real contrast to Muldoon.