ELECTION CANDIDATES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 204, 29 August 1928, Page 9

ELECTION CANDIDATES.

UNITED PARTY'S CANDIDATES ROTORUA AND THAMES. MR. C. H. CLINKARD FOR ROTORUA. MR. E. McGREGOR FOR THAMES.

Two more candidates are announced for the United party, Mr. Cecil H. Clinkard for Rotorua, and Mr. E. McGregor for the Thames. Mr. Clinkard is very well known in the Hot Lakes district, where he was the first Mayor of Rotorua, a position which he held for four years. Mr. Clinkard was born in North Auckland, at Makarau, where he spent many years in the kauri timber industry. He was also managing director °f the Auckland Farmers' Union Auctioneering Company. He has given 21 years to public service, as chairman of school committees, county councillor, road board member, an elected member of the Tauranga Harbour Board ,and is at present a member of the Rotorua Borough Council.

Mr. E. McGregor, of Morrinsville, who is standing for the Thames seat, was born in Gisborne in 1886, and joined the Customs Department there and served in the Department for 14 years, and then qualified as a solicitor and accountant. In 1917 he commenced the practice of his profession in Morrinsville, and was chairman of the Morrinsville Town Board for three years, during which period the town's water supply was installed. He has been chairman of the school committee, and at present is president of the Morrinsville Chamber of Commerce.