COUNTRY PARTY.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 253, 6 September 1928, Page 1

COUNTRY PARTY.

ROTORUA ELECTORATE. Candidate’s Career. Mr. S. H. Judd, -of Maungatautari, Cambridge, who has been selected to contest the Rotorua seat in the interests of the Country Party, was born in Kent, England, in 1878. After leaving school Mr. Judd spent two years farming in Sussex and seven years in accountancy work in London, arriving in New Zealand in 1903. The first three years in the Dominion Mr. Judd spent gaining experience on sheep stations in the Poverty Bay district, and then he purchased a bush farm in the Clevedon district on which he remained until the outbreak of war. Mr. Judd enlisted on August 12, 1914, and sailed with the Main Body (3rd Auckland Mounted Rifles) on the Waimana. After three years’ service in Gallipoli, the Sinai Desert and Palestine, Mr. Judd was invalided out of the army following the second attack on Gaza.

Returning to New Zealand Mr. Judd purchased his present property at Maungatautari in 1918, and two years later was elected representative of the riding on the Matamata County Council on which body he has sat continuously ever since. Mr. Judd has been a full member of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union for 21 years, and has served on the Provincial executive and as a president of the Cambridge branch. As initiator and chairman of the New Zealand Co-operative Pig Marketing Association, Mr. Judd has displayed organising ability of no mean order, and his selection by delegates to represent farmers in the forthcoming Parliamentary election had proved to be a popular one.