SEATS RETAINED
BV NATIONALIST PARTY NOT CONTESTED BY LABOUR. SATURDAY’S BY-ELECTIONS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) ' WELLINGTON, This Day. The National Party candidates were returned at the by-elections held on Saturday in the Hauraki and Temuka electorates to fill the vacancies in the House of Representatives caused by the deaths of Lieutenant-Colonel J. M. Allen and Mr T. D. Burnett respectively. Neither seat was contested by the Labour Party. Results of the voting are as follows: HAURAKI. A. S. Sutherland (National) 3639 H. T. Head (Independent) 1043 Majority for Sutherland .... 2596 TEMUKA. J. Acland (National) 4142 D. C. Davie (Independent Monetary Reform) 1516 Majority for Acland 2626 Voting in the 1938 election for the Hauraki seat was J. M. Allen (National) 4987, R. Coulter (Labour, and the sitting member) 3775—a majority for Allen of 1212. In the 1938 election Mr Burnett (National), who had been member for Temuka since 1919, held a majority, over J. A. Kearton (Labour) of 1269 votes, the voting being Burnett 5204, Kearton 3935.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1942, Page 3
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166SEATS RETAINED Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1942, Page 3
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