MAORI POLITICS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 97, 10 July 1946, Page 6

MAORI POLITICS

EASTERN LABOBUR NAMES FOR THE BALLOT Following the recent visit of the Prime Minister, Mr P. Fraser, and the national secretary of the NewZealand Labour Party, Mr F. Moohan, to the East Coast, the matter of the Labour nomination for the Eastern Maori district was discussed in the light of Mr H. T. Reedy's leclaration of his intention to seek the suffrages of the Labour electors in that area.

Mr Reedy has undertaken to submit his name to a ballot, in anticipation of the general election, and to accept the ruling of the national executive of the Labour Party in the matter. Should he be successful in the ballot, he has been assured of the support of the present sitting "member and other possible candidates for the nomination; and he on his part has undertaken to support the chosen candidate in the event of another nominee being successful in the ballot.

During the past week Mr Reedy has visited the Tuhoe tribes in the Bay of Plenty area and he is to pay visit next week to the Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa areas. Later he has arranged to meet the Maoris of the Rotorua district, as a preliminary to a general and detailed tour of the Maori settlements throughout the Eastern Maori electorate.

The opportunity, of meeting many of the leading Maori representatives in the various settlements already ias been provided to Mr Reedy, who, however, intends to make his forthcoming tour a special effort to meet the rank and file of the people in the various parts of the district.