George Gee

George Gee (11 November 1921 – 27 March 1984) was a New Zealand businessman and local politician. He was the first Asian New Zealander elected to a mayoralty.

Biography Gee was born in New Plymouth in 1921 and was educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School. He and his family moved to Petone in 1938. He married Dorothy Bing in 1940, having met in Blenheim, with whom he had one son and one daughter. He and all of his family were fluent speakers of Chinese. In World War II he served domestically in the Army Service Corp from 1942 to 1944. He suffered an injury in an accident which invalided him from service just before he was to be posted overseas.

After the war he worked in his family's greengrocer and fruiterer shop on Jackson Street in Petone. George Gee Drive in Korokoro is named in his honour.