MID-CANTERBURY SEAT
NATIONAL PARTY’S BALLOT.
UTIfflCHESfr' MENTiONED.
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
The first, name mentioned as likely co be submitted for the National Party’s ballot for the selection of a candidate to succeed Mrs Grigg, M.P., as the official candidate for the MidCanterbury seat at the General Election is that of Mr A. A. McLachlan, a grandson of Mr John McLachlan, who was M.P. for Ashburton from 1893 to 1896 and from 1899 to 1908. For some years Mr McLachlan has been working a farm of 600 acres in the Dunsandel district, which Ts in the Mid-Canterbury electorate, but he practised for a long time as a barrister and solicitor in Christchurch, and has been prominent in local politics. He was appointed an acting-stipendiary magistrate in 1941, .and sat on the bench in .both Christchurch and Wellington. He was also president of the Assessment Court, and he has held many local body positions in recent years. He was most prominent as chairman of the Christchurch Tramway Board.
Mr McLachlan contested the Riccarton seat in' 1928 and 1931. and the Kaiapoi seat in 1985.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 170, 30 April 1943, Page 2
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