PATEA BY-ELECTION

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 149, 19 March 1921, Page 6

PATEA BY-ELECTION

THE WRIT TO BE ISSUED REFORM CANDIDATE SELECTED The Prime Minister gave notice in the House of Representatives yesterday of his intention to move that tho Speaker should instruct the Clerk of. AVrita to issue the writ for the election of a member of the House of Representatives for Pa tea. 1 The writ will be returnable within three weeks.

The official Reform candidate for the Patea seat is to lie Mr. Edwin Dixon, the Mayor of Hawera. The selection was made at a meeting of the party in the electorate vesterday. Mr. Dixon, who is a New Zealander by birth, has been in business at Hawera for the past 26 years. He has been Mayor of the ’borough for three terms, and has been very successful in his handling of borough affairs. He has taken a keen interest in education, and was for some years a member of the AVanganui Education Board, and subsequently, after the division of the district, of. the New Plymouth Education Board. He is a member of the Repatriation Board, and has been .connected prominently with the Prohibition Party. Ho was president for three consocutive years of the Hawera Chamber of Commerce, is a member of the Licensing Benell, and has occupied various other local positions. Tlie official Opposition candidate, a« already announced, is to be Mr. AV. Morrison, who contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1919.