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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1941, Page 4

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Mr Harold Ernest Denton has been selected as the Labour candidate for the Hurunui seat at the general election. Mr Denton contested the seat for Labour at the last election.

Major S. C. V. W. Sugden, N.Z.S.C., has been appointed Staff Officer for training at the Papakura mobilisation camp, vice Lieutenant (temporary Major) T. F. Laffey, N.Z.S.C. Lieutenant J. C. Dakin, of the King’s African Rifles, has been promoted to the rank of captain. Captain Dakin, an old boy of the Southland Boys’ High School, is a former New Zealand Rhodes Scholar. Before the war he was attached to the Colonial Service ini Uganda.

The National Party candidate for Waitemata is Mr W. B. Darlow, who contested the recent by-election as an Independent. The only other aspirant; for the nomination was Mi’ P. R. Gardner, who also stood as an Independent at the by-election. The decision was made at a meeting of delegates representing about 2000 members of the party. Mr Darlow, who received 3884 votes at the by-election, is a resident in the electorate, and well known in local body affairs. He is a member of the Auckland City Council, a member andj past chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board, and is the present chairman of the Waitemata Electric Power Board. The death occurred at Bishop's House, Dunedin, last night, of the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Morkane, D.D., M.A., aged 60 years, reports a Press Association telegram. Monsignor Morkane was born at Port Chalmers in 1881. educated at Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington, Sydney, ordained in Rome in 1907, and in 1910 appointed to the professorial staff of Holy Cross College, Mosgiel. He became rector in 1920, and the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred in 1925. He again visited Rome in 1934. being created a domestic prelate by the Pope. On his return he was appointed administrator of St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Dunedin. He made a health visit to Rome in 1939, returning shortly before the outbreak of war and since then his health had gradually failed.