GENERAL ELECTION
WELLINGTON NORTH SEAT. NATIONAL CANDIDATE SELECTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Following a postal ballot conducted among members of the National Party in the Wellington North electorate, Ihe mayor of Wellington, IVIr 1. C. A. Hislop, has been selected as the National candidate for that electorate in the forthcoming election. The seat is at present held by Mr C. 11. Chapman. Mr Hislop, who is 55, has been mayor of Wellington since .1931, but was first elected to the city council in 1913 at the age of 25. He resigned in December, 1914, in order to go to the war. He is a son of the Hon. 'l'. W. Hislop, former mayor of Wellington, and M.H.R. for Waitaki and Oamaru, who was Minister of Education and Colonial Secretary in the Atkinson Government, and a grandson of John Hislop, M.H.R., who framed the first Education Act. WAIPAWA SEAT. MR HARKER CHOSEN AS NATIONALIST. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Two names, those of Mr C. G. Harker, the sitting member, and Mr J. D. W. Ormond, were submitted to a meeting of the National Party last night to select the candidate for the Waipawa seat. Mr Harker was chosen.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1943, Page 2
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