BULLER SEAT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 247, 19 October 1933, Page 12

BULLER SEAT.

NO COALITION CANDIDATE? LABOUR BELIEVED TOO STRONG. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. It is not likely that an official Coalition candidate will be selected to contest tho Buller seat. Three candidates already have been selected —Mr. P. C. Webb, Labour; Mr. H. Lan Simson, Liberal-Labour; and Mr. E. L. Hills, Independent Labour. No recommendation as to a candidate has yet been received by the leaders of the Coalition, and they are leaving the matter in the hands of Coalition supporters in the electorate. There are, it is believed, one or two supporters of the Coalition who believe they would win the seat, but the opinion among the national leaders of the party is that it would be better to allow the seat to go by default as far as they are concerned. The seat has been held by Labour ever since it was constituted, and owing to the very large proportion of Labour supporters in the electorate the opinion is generally held that it would be a waste of time and money to bring out an official Government candidate. Tho official Labour candidate, Mr. Webb, is one of the strongest campaigners in that party, and although the principle of party succession to a seat is in no way conceded, common sense leads to the belief that it would bo better if an official Coalition candidate did not stand.