GENERAL ELECTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1943, Page 2

GENERAL ELECTION

CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED. EGMONT SEAT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, August 9. Mr Edwin Thomas Cox, former mayor of Dunedin, has been chosen as tho official Labour candidate for Egmont. HURUNUI. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ' CHRISTCHURCH, August 9. Subject to the approval of the Dominion council, the National PaGy candidate for the Hurunui seat will bk. Mr W. H. Gillespie, farmer, of Ben-' netts. The selection was made at a meeting in Rangiora as a result of the retirement of Mr Forbes, who has held the seat for 35 years. Seven nominations were received, including Mr M. E. i Lyons, National candidate in the recent I Christchurch East by-election, and Captain Richard Bothell, who is serving in the Middle East. CENTRAL HAWKE’S BAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WAIPUKURAU? August 9. Up to the present two candidates have been announced for the Waipawa seat in the forthcoming parliamentary election. Mr C. G. Harker, the present holder of the seat, will stand in the interests of the National Party, and Mr A. Grant Holms (son of Mr A. C. Holms, formerly of Masterton and Featherston) is contesting the seat as an Independent. NEW PLYMOUTH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, August 9. Mr Leonard Arthur Jury, a farmer, of Brixton, near New Plymouth, has been nominated as the Democratic Labour candidate for the New Plymouth seat, making a four-cornered contest.

WESTERN MAORI.

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, This Day.

Mr Pei te Hurinui Jones, licensed Native interpreter, Hawera, has consented to his nomination as a Labour candidate for the Western Maori electorate. Mr Jones’s candidature was sponsored by Princess Te Puea and members of the Maori King's family.