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ELECTION NOTICES. PATEA ' | • ! ' * J for REFORM and ; ■ W. D. POWDRELL DFtTIII was born at Wairoa, H. 8., 47 years ago, coming to Kakaramea 'as a - small boy with' his- parents. He was farming.on.tlie-Waimatc Plains near Manaia, and 15 years ago came to Hawera. He knows the district and the people unusually well. "Witli regard to. public affairs Some seven years ago tlie Pa tea Freezing Company was taken over by the farmers of the district, and he was'"appointed-Managing'Director, and lias built up a very prosperous concern. He has been Chairman of Directors of the Kaupokonui Co-operative Dairy Factory for many years, and has seen its growth from quite small, beginnings to probably the largest concern'of 1 its. kind in'the-world'. : This'is fact, not exaggeration. He is on the directorate of the-Egmont Box Company, and has been on the directorate pf,.the Sp.utli. Taranaki Bacon Company since before the amalgamation with Dimock. He is also on the directorate of the Whenuakura-.Dairy.Co-operative-Company, and also Advisory Manager to the Whakatane Freezing Company. Vote., Jor,,; POWDRELL and Reform

TARANAKI The Official REFORM Candidate G. H. ; BUCKERIDGE lifer ■ itosM. The Friend ■ Stands for of %• jPlflllji Sane Progress, The Producers ; Security and ■ and- Sound The Workers Government Ikti Mr G. H. BUCKERIDGE was born in Nelson, and was educated in the public schools there and in Nelson College. He arrived in' Taranaki in 1889, and in the following year entered business with Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, with whom he organised the Eltham Co-operative Dairy Compapy, tlie first company of the kind to be run under the system of finance now generally adopted, the system which it is now admitted was tJie'ionly one. ; possible ; for : such concerns. He organised the Farmers' Union throughout tho whole Auckland province, and lie was the originator of the Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company, and of the Farmers' Co-operative Auctioneering Company in the Waikato; • In Taranaki he organised the.Farmers' Co-operative Organisation Society, of which he was the first chairman of directors, and t] ie society lidS since proved to be one of the'most successful co-opera live concerns that has ever boon established in New Zealand. He put new life into the Farmers' Union in Taranaki at a time when interest in tho institution was flagging, and he raised it to a position of prosperity'sucli' as it had never previously known in the province. He is responsible for tho present Fanners' Union movement in Taranaki in seeking to bring about some better relation between employer and worker, and to educate public opinion on questions of economics.' He is at present actively engaged as a member of a committee investigating the production and sale of dried milk and sugar of milk.. Mr. Buckeridge.has.beena very active friend of the farmer, and. ospccially of the small farmer, for the past, thirty years. About eight years ago he delivered a series of lectures abroad advertising New Zealand and its products, in the endeavour to create a demand fo~ our products*;' •. • • . on 'Wednesday

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 68, 13 December 1919, Page 22

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Page 22 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 68, 13 December 1919, Page 22

Page 22 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 68, 13 December 1919, Page 22

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