BY-ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 311, 10 June 1915, Page 2

BY-ELECTIONS.

I- a»i BAY Ob' LSLAXOS IUvSCJf/T. j By Telegraph.—Press Association. ' Auckland, June !). Tlie complete returns are:— Stewart 3217 frenzies 2HIU Majority for Stewart 001 (Mr. "Wjlliam Stewart, the new member for the Bay of Islands, is an Irishman hy hirth, having 'been horn in County Antrim 53 years ago. He arrived in the Dominion with his parents when five years of age, and except for a short period when hi' was serving as a cadet in the Post and 'lVlegraph Department in Wellington, lias' always been closely connected 'with the township of TCawakawa. After owning &nd conducting a drapery business for a while, in Auckland, Mr. Stewart commenced as a storekeeper at Kawakawa, and right up to the present lie has always had large commercial interests in that place. For the past 22 years Mr. B stewart has taken a keen interest in a local iliody matters, and at the present time he holds the .position of chairman of the Bay of Islands County Council, and is also chairman of the Bay of r Islands Hospital and Charitable Aid ' Board. iSomc time ago he retired from d business to engage in farming pursuits, but lie still retains an active interest in public and commercial life.)