High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wairau was a former parliamentary electorate in the Marlborough region of New Zealand, from 1853 to 1938.The electorate was represented by fourteen Members of Parliament, including Frederick Weld (a future premier) 1853-55 and 1858-60, William Wells 1855-58, William Henry Eyes 1861-71, Arthur Penrose Seymour 1872-75 and 1876-81, Thomas Buick 1890-96, Charles H Mills 1896-1908, John Duncan 1908-11, Richard McCallum 1911-22, William Girling 1922-28, Edward Healy 1928-35, and Edwin Meachen of the Labour Party, from 1935 to 1938.