OTAKI ELECTORATE.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2324, 4 December 1914, Page 14

OTAKI ELECTORATE.

TjjfS. WiijLIAM HUGHES FIELD, the son of,a Pioneer Settler, tHe late :; ; 3ytr. Henry Ojaylands Field, who was, one of the first, surveyors and engineers in New Zealand, was born in the-. Wanganui District. He ,waa educated at the Wellington College, andbecamel afterwards a sohplar of the New Zealand University. ' Has practised in Wellington as a barrister and solicitor'' for twenty-five, years. His interest in sport and pubpo affairs has always been cf the -keenest, and he was for many years captain of $he Boating Club. Heis, and has been for many years paßt, a member of the Wellington Education Board and the Technical School Board \ and a Governor of the : Wellington College. On,fihe death of his brother, Mr. Harry Field (who died four days after re-election in December, 1889), Mr Field was ejected in his place in the Liberal interest, and was in Parliament continuously for twelve years. At the election of 15)11' Mr. Field won the first ballot by nearly' 500 votes, but was beaten on the second ballot by 21 yptes. During his career in, Parliament he was Chairman of the Country Party on the Liberal side, and as such he considered it his djity, wit]i others,' to protect .country interests, and was , always regarded by his constituents as an ideal country member. During bis 12 year's in office $he district which ho represented grew into a thoroughly prosperous farming community, and all.rpa<}s, telegraph, post offices, etc., improved tp a very .material extent.- "He t bel also instrumental in obtaining for Qtaki a Maori College, and in putting on the.Statute Book "The Juvenile Smoking Act!! and ''Tho Djamatip Copyright' Act." He has always been a strenuous worker for the mental hospital attendants, railway servants, and other workers in his : district, and ??PH r ed for the Manawatu railway employees their due : participation in the Railway Superannuation Funds and other benefits. ■~< -MR. FIELD; holds substantial farm interests in the district, and conducts his own' farming operations and affairs. He has tete* a fading W' .te'rest'in prevention, his own farm being an object lesson as to : wha|; pan be done in this direction, and also in river protection works, Native forest and scenery preservation, and protection of Native bird life.