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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 302, 20 December 1918, Page 3

Majority for Sompi c >.„ j 231 ■MY. Rolirrt Somple. member rWt for Wcninjrton South, is :ln Australian, hennj; been horn in New South Wales Bbout 44 ynam ago. AH his life he has been associated with eoad mining, and a? n young man ho worked for sev. T al yrars in the (lutrun coalminos, Oippskm!. From Victoria he went to West Australia, and later came acros to Xew ZMland. when he took a prominem, parr in the formation of the New Zealand Federation of Labour. He was fir?: made prosidcr.4 of this organisation and afterwards became national oreanifor. in which capacity he was conspictloas during: the industrial disturbances OT 1013. About a year later he was appointed miners' inspector for AVw Zealand, and this position he held up to the time of Ills election. The newly elected member lias had many veara expericEfP on the public platform, and is a ready and quiek-wittod speaker thoogh inclined to some extravagance of lammage heated in tae course of dcnatP.

In the election of IPI4 there were Hfe "lectors on the Wellington South mil. while the total votes recorded were 7n - 4 '. < ?i n t ■ h A ' H- Hindmarsh r'etr'Ti *-'?;, •p- L,,ke : * m - and R- b. Wniiaias 221.