POLITICAL ADDRESS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 369, 25 February 1937, Page 4

POLITICAL ADDRESS.

Nationalist Member Speaks Next Tuesday.

Mr. S. G. Holland, M.P., Christchurch North, will address a public meeting at the King's Theatre, Stratford, on Tuesday next, a,t 8 p.m. The meeting, the organisation of which is in the hands of Mr. T. G. Wilkes, divisional organiser of the National Party, will be presided over by his Worship the Mayor of Stratford, Mr. J. W. McMillan.

Although a new member of the House of Representatives, gaining his seat for the first time at the last election, Mr. Holland comes from a family well known in New Zealand public affairs, and he represents an electorate of historic political associations. His father, the late Mr. Henry Holland, an ex-Mayor of Christchurch, held the Christchurch North seat from 1925 until the last election, when he retired. Prior to that, the member for Christehurch North was the Rev. L. M. Isitt, a famous Liberal and one of the most polished orators of modern times. His predecessor was Mr. T. E. Taylor, a prominent leader in the Prohibition movement. Mr S. G. Holland has for some time been a prominent executive in New Zealand .sporting circles. He is a member of the New Zealand Hockey Council and lias ben manager of a

national hockey touring team to Australia. His name was recently

brougli tbefore the public as a member of the parliamentary delegation to the Cook Islands which investigated conditions there and the problems relating to tlie fruit trade between tlie islands and New Zealand. He fs one of the youngest and most vigorous members of the present Opposition.