PERSONALITIES OF NEW PARLIAMENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 512, 15 November 1928, Page 9

PERSONALITIES OF NEW PARLIAMENT

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MR. ROBERT SEMPLE One of the outstanding figures in the New Zealand Labour movement, he entered Parliament first as member for Wellington South in 1918, but at the General Election next year he was defeated. Born in New South Wales in 1873, he worked for 26 years on the Australian goldfields. Coming to New Zealand, he worked in the State mines in Westland, and helped to form the first Miners’ Association, of which he was president. He was associated with the Waihi strike, and the waterside workers' strike of 1913. In 1921 he undertook the Orongorongo tunnelling contract which was carried out in record time. MR. H. M. RUSHWORTH Mr. H. M. Rushworth, the Country Party’s solitary representative, now member for the Bay of Islands, was born In England in 1880, and educated at Rugby and Jesus College, Cambridge. Joining the Durham Light Infantry, he was drafted too late to serve in South Africa. He became a surveyor, but with the outbreak of war joined the Seventh City of London Regiment. He was severely wounded, but returned to France, and after further infantry service joined the air force. Wounded again in an »ir fight and captured by the Germans, after 13 weeks in hospital, he was released through the intervention o( the Dutch Ambassador. He arrived in New Zealand at the end of 1923, and went on the land at Opua. He is Interested in farmers’ affairs. mr. t. w. McDonald Mr. T. W. McDonald, the new member for Wairarapa, was born in Tasmania in 1869, and came to New Zealand in 1893. He enlisted in the New Zealand Permanent Militia, rising to the rank of colonel in the staff corps, and was officer commanding the Otago district when it was absorbed in the Southern Command. He commanded the Otago Battalion of the Main Body of the N.Z.E.F. He became seriously ill in Egypt, and after a spell in 'England, returned to New Zealand for home service. He has been a member of the Wellington Education Board, and twice Major of Lower Hutt. MR. A. E. ANSELL Mr. A. E. Ansell, who has retained Reform, was born in Dunedin in 1876. He is keenly interested in sport, and was one of Dunedin’s pioneer motorists, being one of the men responsible for the founding of the Otago Motor Club. He is now ia his third term as president of the &outh Island Motor Union. MR. P. A. DE LA PERRELLE Winner of the Awarua seat for the Untteds. Born in Otago in 1873, he entered journalism when 21, and has taken interest in the work Of various local bodies. He has been the Lake County representative on the Southland Hospital Board, and also chairman of the Southland Education Board. He has represented Awarua before, being defeated last election by Mr. J. R. Hamilton. MR. J. O’BRIEN Mr. James O’Brien, new Labour member for Westland, has revenged his one-vote defeat of last election. Born in Victoria in 1875, he arrived in New Zealand in 1904. He was a mining engineer, and organised the purchase of the "Grey River Argus,” a Labour Oaily. He was elected first hi 1922, but three years later was defeated on the casting vote of the returning officer. MR. R. W. HAWKE Elected as United member for Kaiapoi, Mr. Hawke has been promtueutly associated with local body work in the electorate for many years. He was a member, and later ‘hairman, of the Waimari County Council, and is interested In the poultry industrj-. He has been president oi the New Zealand Utility Poultry Uub, and is a director of Canterbury Poultry Producers', Ltd. MR. C. E. MACMILLAN "inning the important by-election against Sir Joseph Ward in 1923, he ■as held the Tauranga seat since then, wrn in the Danish West Indies in . he arrived in New Zealand as i He engaged in farming at and has been associated Mth all the important movements at auranga in recent years. He was e Promoter of the East Coast ShipCompany. MR. W. E. BARNARD . '’- r W. E. Barnard, the Labour mem'll for Napier, is a New Zealander, commenced practice as a solicitor 190 S. For the past nine years he ..T 3 ca ried on the business of a law- ; r at Helensville in the Kaipara elecrate. Mr. Barnard is a returned soli er has taken an active interest ® ihe affairs of Helensville, having , id until recently the positions of Resident of the Helensville Chamber ~ Commerce, Musical Society and J-nnis Club. For six years past Mr. jjarnard has been a keen member of r? Labour Party. He was instrumen- , ln tounding the Helensville branch the party in 1923. of which he has secretary for five years and also Kaipara Labour representation “mmittee, of which he has been preside In 1925 Mr. Barnard contested *** l against Mr. Coates,

HON. K. S. WILLIAMS Minister of Public Works in the Reform Cabinet,, he has represented the Bay of Plenty since 1920. He has been sheep farming on the East Coast most of his life, and was at one time chairman of the Waiapu County Council. He promoted the freezing industry in his district. MR. C. A. WILKINSON Defeating the Hon. O. J. Hawken, he enters on his second term in Parliament. Although now an Independent, he represented Egmont as a Reform member 1912-19. retiring at the end of that time. He was born at New Plymouth 1868. and has been a member of Taranaki local bodies. MR. A. J. MURDOCH Mr. A. J. Murdoch, the United member for Marsden, was born in 1877, and in his early years was a school teacher spending 28 years at Ruakaka. He later took up farming. Mr. Murdoch was keenly interested in the formation of the Waipu railway, acting as secretary of ,the league formed to further the project. He is a member of the Whangarei Chamber of Commerce, and is a keen sportsman. Mr. Murdoch defeated his opponent, Mr. W. Jones, at the 1922 election, but was defeated by him in 1925. MR. J. T. HOGAN Mr. J. T. Hogan, the new Independent member for Rangitikei, is 54 years of age. He was educated at St. Mary's School, Wanganui, being the dux boy of his year. As a student of art and architecture he was coached by the Marist Brothers’ College. In the athletic field he rowed for Aramoho Boating Club for several years. He was in the service of the Railway Department from 1893 to 1905 and resigned to contest the Wanganui seat as a Liberal, being returned by a large majority. He was a member of the House from 1905 to 1911. He has served as a member of the Wanganui Harbour Board. MR. F. LANGSTONE Labour’s new member in Waimarino, Mr. Frank Langstone, is a well-known resident of Taumarunui. He has been associated with the Shearers’ Union for many years, being a member of the executive. He also carried out organisation work for the New Zealand Workers’ Union among the timber workers in the King Country. In 1919 Mr. Langstone contested the Waimarino seat against Mr. R. W. Smith, being unsuccessful. In 1922 he reversed the position, but Mr. Smith was successful in 1925 at the general election. MR. R- W. HALL Mr. R. W. Hall captured for Labour t.he Dunedin South scat (held for over 22 years by Mr. T. K. Sidey as Liberal and Nationalist), beating the Mayor of Dunedin, Mr. W. B. Taverner, and the president of the New Zealand Alliance, Mr. C. Todd. Mr. Hall was born in Shilton, Durham, in 1879. He came to New Zealand with his father in 1882, and for some years worked as a coalminer. Then he went to Dunedin, and entered the commercial life. He resigned from the service of the Waitaki Dairy Company after serving as salesman fOr 15 years. Mr. Hall was for 11 years a borough councillor of St. Kilda. He was elected Mayor in 1925, and was returned unopposed in 1927. MR. J. B. DONALD The new member for Auckland East, Mr. J. B. Donald, is a wellknown Auckland business man. He is a director of the firm of A. B. Donald, Ltd., merchants. He is an Aucklander, and was born in his own electorate. After completing his education at Queen’s College, he entered his father's business, with which he has been associated for 30 years. He is a son of Mr. A. B. Donald, who founded the firm of Donald and Edinborough, merchants and Island traders. Commerce and finance are his studies in public life, and he has manifested a wide knowledge of politics.