WELLINGTON SOUTH SEAT
• BIG LIST OF PROBABLES'. ; Councillor George Frost, staled to a DOMINION reporter last night I hat he had decided to accept nomination for the Wellington South by-election. Captain W. H. .Hawkins has also announced his intention of being u candidate. Councillor John Castle has alreao.y intimated his intention of standing. . . Captain Hawkins is an ex-member for Paluatua, he having been elected at a bv-elcclion in 1905. Ho returned ■to New Zealand in March, last alter about three years' active service aj: the front, and since then has been alta.clied- lo the lucal Headciuarters. Captain Hawkins was editor of the Pahiatua "Herald ,, for six years. Following the usual procedure the Labour Representation 'Commitlei. , will hold a.ballot to decide which ufthose who elect, to ofl'er themselves shall stand for the .seat. Mr. il'., J. Kctirdon, presi-. dent of the Trades and Labour Council, will bo nominated by that body,, and it is rumoured that Mr. M. J. Rend, secretary of the Enginedrivers' Union, and Mr. W. T. Young, secretary of the freumenVi Union, will figure on the card as Iho nominees of those bodies. So far the National Government caiidida'tc has not been selected.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 56, 30 November 1918, Page 6
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195WELLINGTON SOUTH SEAT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 56, 30 November 1918, Page 6
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