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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2540, 8 February 1923, Page 4

The interest, best represented in the New Zealand Parliament is always the farming interest. In the new House of Representatives' there are 27 farmers. The next group in point of numbers is that of lawyers, who are nine. Five journalists form the only other homogeneous mass, for the six other members who may be described as agents are engaged in a variety of businesses, and have consequently diverse interests. In addition to 27 farmers, nine lawyers, six agents, five journalists, two secretaries, two enginedrivers, and two labourers, there are in the new House a printer, a manufacturer, a fruitgrower, a merchant, a saddler, an engineering employer, a county engineer, an engine fitter, a draper, a clothier, a storekeeper, a_ dentist, a refreshment room keeper, a school teacher (retired), a commercial traveller, an assayer, a polisher, a sign writer, a baker, a grocer’s assistant, a store-man and a cellarman. The native members are not accounted for in the analysis.