FOUR MENTIONED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 304, 7 October 1935, Page 6

FOUR MENTIONED

THE MIDCANTERBURY SEAT.

SIR W. NOSWORTHY, MR E. F NIGOLL.

MR J. CARR AND MR R. T. McMillan.

NATIONAL PARTY REPRESENTATION.

Sir William Nosworthy and Mr E. F. Nicoll, of Ashburton, Mr J Carr, of Methven, and Mr R. T. McMillan, of Dwell, have been mentioned as possible candidates for the Mid-Canter-bury seat in the National Party interests.

Sir William Nosworthy, who represented the old Ashburton electorate from 1908 till the change, of electorate boundaries in 1928, and was Minister of Agriculture when, he retired from active politics, told a “Guardian” reporter to-day that he had not yet liacl time to consider representations that had been made to him with a view to contesting the seat, and he would not make a statement of. his intentions for some time yet. He stated that many people had approached him in regard to his standing for Mid-Canter-bury. Mr Nicoll was in Christchurch to-day and his decision in regard to requests that have been made to him to stand for nomination in the National interests could not be ascertained, though it is understood that finality in regard to the party’s candidate will be reached at a meeting in- Ashburton this week. v

Mr Nicoll is well-known throughout Canterbury as a farmer and a’partner in the firm of Messrs Nicoll Brothers, meat exporters. He has been chairman of the Ashburton Electric Power Board for some years and he is a member of the New Zealand Power Supply Authorities’ Association Executive.

Mr Carr has, it is stated, expressed his willingness to have his name submitted as a candidate. He has had wide experience in local government work over a long period of years. Mr McMillan, the fourth possible candidate mentioned, is a well-known farmer and stock-dealer. He is a member of the Lyttelton Harbour Board, the Canterbury Progress League, and the SpringsrEllesmere Electric Power Board.

LABOUR PARTY CANDIDATE.

MR H. E. HERRING TO STAND.

NATIONAL EXECUTIVE'S CHOICE.

The selection of Mr Horace E. Herring, of Ashburton, as the official Labour candidate for the Mid-Canter-bury seat at the general election next month was made by the national executive of the New Zealand Labour Party in Wellington on Saturday. A week ago Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., met members of the Ashburton branch of the party, and stated that the Rev. J. K. Archer, of Christchurch, had been nominated by the national executive as a candidate, making four from whom the executive would make its choice. The three Ashburton nominees, Messrs ’Herring, R. W. Wightman and J. J. Phaup, addressed the meeting, aijfi Mr Sullivan stated that ho had been very much impressed by Mr Herring’s remarks. This, no doubt, carried weight with the executive in choosing Mr Herring as the official candidate.

Mr Herring is an Associate member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, and chartered and registered engineer (London and New Zealand). He served his apprenticeship with a shipbuilding firm in London, and came to the Dominion in 1909. He has spent many years as engineering lecturer and demonstrator in technical education, and for the last eight years has been instructor in charge of the engineering section of the Ashburton Technical High School.