GENERAL ELECTION

Otago Witness, Issue 4031, 16 June 1931, Page 24

GENERAL ELECTION

PROBABLE CANDIDATES. BAY OF PLENTY. The Dominion Executive of the United Party has accepted Mr J. T. Morry as its official candidate for the Bay of Plenty seat. WAIRAU. The workers on the south trunk railway works have formed a Wharanui branch of the Labour Party, and intend to nominate Mr W. Meachen as the Laboui - candidate for the Wairau electorate. NEW PLYMOUTH. A meeting of delegates selected Mr W. Middleton, barrister and solicitor, of Waitara, as the Reform candidate for the New Plymouth seat. MANUKAU AND FRANKLIN. • The Auckland provincial executive of the United Party decided last week to recommend the endorsement by the Dominion executive of the candidature for the general election of Mr M. J. Moore (Manukau) and Mr C. I. Harkness (Franklin). TIMARU. It is authoritatively stated that Air W. Angland, ex-Mayor of Timaru, will contest the Timaru seat as an Independent or an Independent Liberal, thus making a four-cornered contest between Labour (Mr Clyde Carr, M.P.), Reform (Mr H. N. Armstrong), United (candidate to be selected), and an Independent. The choice of a United Party candidate appears to lie between Mr Herbert Hall and Mr A. Kennedy, the Deputy Mayor. WALLACE. Mr P. Gilfedder has decided to contest the Wallace seat as an Independent.