POLITICAL

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 13 March 1917, Page 6

POLITICAL

MEMBER FOR HAWKE’S BAY.

Sir John Findlay, the new member for Hawke’s Bay, returned to Wellington this evening, and received the congratulations of his friends upon his victory. 'The contest seems to have been a very strenuous one from tho first, and to Rave kept the candidates and their active supporters at work till the very last vote w r as recorded. The poll was larger than was generaly expected in the district, there being a feeling abroad that both the members of the Labour Party and the rank and file of the Reform Party would abstain from voting, but it still fell a long way short of the returns at the general election. Sir John made an excellent impression on the platform whenever he spoke, and his local friends are confident of his being able to hold the seat when he is better known in the constituency and has had an opportunity to dissipate the rather narrow' parochialism that •was so largely exploited during the campaign. On this point, and upon the popular assumption that he is to be offered a seat in the National Cabinet, Sir John refuses to be drawn, but he declares his aspirations go no further than to win the approval of his constituents and to fill the place where he mav render the best service to them.