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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 77, 21 November 1931, Page 5

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nomi nations close OOUR CANDIDATES TO GO TO BALLOT ON DEC. 2 INTEREST IN CAMPAIGN All four candidates who have been campaigning in the Rotorua electorate, have been officially nominated and will go to* the ballot. The following were the nominations lodged with the registrar of electors for the Rotorua district (Mr. J. L. Crowther) when nominations closed at noon yesterday. Donald Roderick Frank Campbell, retired school master, of Morrinsville. Cecil Henry Clinltard, member of Parliament, of Rotorua. Alexander Francis Moncur, motor proprietor, of Whakatane. Edward Earle Vaile, grazier, of Waiotapu. Mr. Campbell was nominated by Leonard Machin Nicklin, of Putaruru, labourer; John Canning Tomalin, of Putaruru, storekeeper; Lawrence Ernest Alfred Root, of Putaruru, aecountant; Arthur Richard Vosper, of Putaruru, farmer. Mr. Clinkard's nomination paper was signed by John Buchanan, of Matamata, solicitor; Henry Pullar Ford, farmer, Rotorua; George Herbert French, of Rotorua, merchant; Walter Monk, junior, of Rotorua, builder and contractor; William Yandle, of Putaruru, farmer; William Edward Ayers, of Waharoa, farmer; Thomas Henry Sloane, of Rotorua, land agent. Mr. Moncur's nomination was signed by Thomas Jackson, farmer, of Rotorua, and Albert George Cottrell, auctioneer, of Rotorua. Three nomination papers were lodged for Mr. Vaile, to which the following were signatories, Herbert Munro Martin, farmer, of Ngongotaha; Frederick Goodson, carrier, of Rotorua; Elizabeth Ann Robertson, widow, of Rotorua; John McDowell, land agent, of Rotorua; William Anderson, baker, of Taupo; Vivian Taiaroa Fail, company manager, of Taupo ; Rev. John George Loughton, of Taupo, Presbyterian minister; John Scaif e Armstrong, medical practitioner, of Taupo; Harold Leslie Newdick, hotel keeper, of Taupo; Donald Benjamin Hunt, motor engineer, of Taupo; George Davis, mechanic, of Taupo; Ethel Eliza Bell, married woman, of Matamata; .James William Anderson, farmer of Paerere ; Francis Rose, storekeeper, of Tirau; James Russell Oswald Lochhead, solicitor, of Putaruru. Interest in the contest is rapidly mounting through the electorate, and next week will see the arrival of a number of well-known political figures to support their various party nominees. The Minister of Lands, and late Acting-Prime Minister in the Forbes United Govemment (the Hon. E. A. Ransom), will speak in Rotorua to-night in support of the Coalition candidate, Mr. C. H. Clinkard, and during the coming week, there are possibilities that the Minister for Native Affairs, the Hon. Sir Apirana T. Ngata, and the Leader of the Reform Party, the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, will also address meetings in this centre. The Leader of the Labour Party, Mr. H. E. Holland, will definitely address a meeting on Saturday, November 28. The only one of the four candidates,. who has not so far addressed the electors in Rotorua, Mr. D. R. F. Campbell, the Country Party nominee, will open his campaign in in the Peerless . Hall on Tuesday night.