BULLER SEAT.
MR. P. C. WEBB CHOSEN OFFICIAL LABOUR CANDIDATE FORMER MEMBER FOE GREY. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Mr. P. C. Webb has been selected as the official Labour candidate for the I Buller seat, vacant through the death ! of Mr. H. E. Holland.
Mr. Webb was formerly member for Buller, then known as Grey. He was elected in 1913, and re-elected in the following year. He resigned in 1917, and was re-elected unopposed. He was then called up for military service, but upon declining to wear military uniform lie was sentenced to imprisonment, and the seat was declared vacant in May, 1918. He was succeeded by Mr. Holland, who held the seat until his death.
Mr. Webb was a member of Mr. R. Sample's co-operative tunnelling party near Wellington from 1921 to 1924, and has since lived in Christclmrch, where lie is manager of the local depot of the Point Elizabeth co-operative coal miners.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 245, 17 October 1933, Page 8
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