THE GENERAL ELECTION

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23976, 17 June 1943, Page 3

THE GENERAL ELECTION

PATEA AND EGMONT SEATS NATIONAL CANDIDATES (P.A.) HAWERA, June 16. The National candidate for the Patea seat, in place of Mr’H. G. Dickie, M.P., who is retiring, is Mr W. A. Sheat (Pihama), president of the South Taranaki branch of the Farmers’ Union. He was selected by the party after a ballot with Mr F. J. Bilton (Waverley). The National candidate for Egmont, where Mr C. A. Wilkinson (Independent) is also retiring, is Mr E. B. Corbett (Okato), winner of the selection ballot in 1941. It is stated that the Labour Party intends to contest both seats, but no nominees have yet been named. PEOPLE’S MOVEMENT SUPPORT FOR INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES (P.A.) AUCKLAND, June 16. Commenting on the decision to hold the election, Mr J. Crisp, president of the People’s Movement, said that the movement still felt that an election this year was wrong and that the successful prosecution of the war should be paramount. "However,” he said, “seeing that an election is to be held, the People’s Movement has decided to sponsor and support independent candidates for all the electorates of the Dominion.” The movement had decided to support the following as independents:— Major Hartley Wilson, E.D., for Eden; Sergeant J. T. Donovan, D.C.M., Auckland Suburbs; Mr R. J. Culver, Roskill, Staff-Sergeant L. E. Read, Onehunga; Mr W. C. Hewitt, Waitemata; Mr H. W. Glynn, Otahuhu; and Mr L. R. Wilkinson, Tauranga.