CENTRAL CANDIDATES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 257, 30 October 1928, Page 9

CENTRAL CANDIDATES.

UNITED AND REFORM. Mr. F. J. Lysnar, the Reform candidate for Auckland Central, is a brother of Mr. W. D. Lysnar, of Gisborne. Born in the electorate which he aspires to represent, he has spent most of his life in Gisborne, where he was engaged in sheep farming. He served as member and chairman of the Cook County Council and the Gisborne Harbour Board. For fourteen years he was a member of the Gisborne High School Board and is a life member of the Gisborne Racing Club. Mr. Lvsnar unsuccessfully contested the Bay of Plenty seat against the Hon. K. s! Williams upon the death of the Hon. W. D. S. Macdonald.

The United party's candidate foi Auckland Central, Mr. William Collingbourne Hewitt, is the son of the late Mr. T. J. Hewitt, a well-known Hawke's Bay farmer. He was born at Kumeroa, in Hawke's Bay, and is 41 years of age. Brought up on a small mixed farm, he received his primary education at the Kumeroa school and won a scholarship, which enabled him to attend the Napier Boys' High School. He subsequentlv attended the Victoria University College, passed his final solicitor's examination at the age of 19, and commenced the practise of his profession at Waipukurau at the age of 21.

Mr. Hewitt was a member of the Te Awamutu-Putaruru Railway Board, and secretary of the Putaruru-Taupo Railway Board and the first president of the Putaruru District Development Board, and has been a member of the Auckland Diocesan Synod for a number of years. He was well known in football circles in Wellington and Taranaki in his younger days. He has always taken a keen interest in farming, both in Hawke's Bay and the Waikato, and has considerable experience in farming the pumice lands, and in the growing of lucerne. Mr. Hewitt is now practising at Auckland and Putaruru, and lives in Auckland. He contested the Rotorua seat as >n Independent in 1919.