NATIONAL PARTY
MID-CANTERBURY SEAT. MRS GRIGG MAY STAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 16. In response to ,a widespread desire on the part of all the branches of the National Party, Mrs Arthur Grigg, widow of Major Grigg, M.P., who was killed in action in Libya, has consented to allow her name to go forward for selection as the'official National Party candidate for Mid-Canterbury byelection. Mrs Grigg has had local-body experience and created something of a record by topping the poll at the last election for Ashburton Hospital Board and by becoming its first woman member. Mrs Grigg is the third daughter of Mi's J. Cracroft Wilson and is a granddaughter of Sir John Hall, a former Premier of New Zealand. Mrs Grigg has been president of the Ashburton Plunket Society.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1941, Page 2
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