SIXTEEN NEW MEMBERS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22534, 17 October 1938, Page 13

SIXTEEN NEW MEMBERS

Careers of Representatives

THIRTEEN men and one woman ELECTED FOR FIRST TIME

Thirteen men and one woman will make their first appearance as members of the House of Representatives when the twentysixth session of the New Zealand Parliament is opened.

The elections resulted in 16 changing their members. Only two former members, Messrs J. N. Massey and A. E. Jull, who are Nationalists, succeeded in regaining seats which were lost at the 1935 election. Two members of the last Parliament, the Hon. J. G. Gobbe and Mr G. R. Petrie, will represent new constituencies.

HR J. M. ALLEN (N.), HAURAKI. Mr Allen is a farmer at Piako. His lather died of wounds in France in 1017. Bom 36 years ago, Mr Allen (was educated at King’s College, Auckland, and at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, where he took the MA. and LL.B. degrees. On returning to New Zealand, he was admitted as a barrister and solicitor, but has Got practised his profession. He is a director vof the Tatua Co-operative ®airy' Company, and has been presijdent of the Morrinsville branch of the Tanners! Union. He is deputy-master 10l the Waikato Hunt, and holds the rank 'of major in the Hauraki Regiment. He has represented Morrinsville um the Thames Valley Electric Power Qoard for the last nine years.

Master of Arts. While at Thames he established the original branch of the Labour Party there. He formed the Kawakawa branch of the party and became chairman of the Bay of Islands Labour Representation Committee on its formation. He has been president of the Auckland Assistant Masters’ Association, vice-president of the New Zealand Assistant Masters’ Association, and on the executive of the Auckland District Educational Institute. He is president of the Bay of Islands subbranch of the New Zealand Educational Institute, and is on the executive of the Kawakawa Chamber of Commerce. ' ».. ,

MR W. J. BROADFOOX (N.), WAITOMO.

IMR W. X. ANDERTON (L.) f EDEN. ’ Mr Anderton was born near BirmSngham, England, 50 years ago. He is »a member of a well-known Methodist (femily, and is himself a lay preacher, fearing the Great War he saw service jin the Royal Field Artillery. Before coming to New Zealand he was asso‘ciated with the Labour movement in ! Britain, coming into contact with Keir Hardie and other prominent leaders. He unsuccessfully contested the Eden ceat against Mr A. J. Stallworthy in the elections of 1928 and 1931. Mr • Anderton served oh the Auckland City Council.

Mr Broadfoot has held this seat for 10 years, and was elected unopposed in 1931. He first entered Parliament as a United candidate. He is a practising solicitor at Te Kuiti, of which he has been Mayor. He is very well known in the King Country, and /has been a prominent speaker bn behalf of the National Party in all parts of New Zealand in the last three years.

MR- X. D. BURNEXT (N.), TEMUKA. Mr Burnett has held the seat since 1919. He was born at' Timaru in 1877, father being a pioneer settler of the Mackenzie Country. He was educated at the Timaru School and the Timaru Boys’ High School, and commenced his pastoral career on Mount, Cook station, which he now owns. He also fai-ms other family properties in South Canterbury. He was member for the Tekapo riding on the Mackenzie County Council for six years, and also of the Timaru Harbour Board. MR C. CARR (L.). TIMARU. Mr Carr was born in Auckland and educated at Nelson College and Canterbury, Wellington, and Auckland University Colleges. He had five years’ commercial and banking experience before entering the Congregational ministry. He was chairman of the Auckland and Canterbury districts of the Congregational Union. When in Christchurch, where he was employed in publishing work, he was a member Of the City Council and the Hospital Board. He was elected for Timaru in 1928. MR C. H. CHAPMAN (L.), WELLINGTON NORTH. Mr Chapman is a printer by ti’ade. He has served on the Wellington City Council, Hospital Board, Harbour Board, and Technical College Board. On behalf of the Labour Party he unsuccessfully contested Wellington South in 1908, Hawke’s Bay in 1919 and 1922, and Wellington Suburbs in 1925. He was elected for Wellington North in 1928. He is-prominent in the Printing Trades’ Federation. RT. HON. J. G, COATES (N.), KAIPARA. Mr Coates first entered Parliament in 1911. He was on active service from 1917 to 1919 as a major and was awarded the Military Cross with bar for gallantry. In 1919 he joined the Massey Ministry and was appointed Minister for Justice and PostmasterGeneral, He relinquished the justice portfolio on becoming Minister for Public Works in 1920, and later .took the portfolios of Native Affairs and Railways. Under his leadership the Reform Party won a sweeping" victory in 1925, but was defeated in 1928. When the Coalition was formed in 1931, he became Minister for Public Works and Transport and also for Unemployment. He was Minister -for Finance and for Customs from 1933 to 1935. Mr Coates has a sheep farm at Matakohe. THE HON. J. G. COBBE (N.), , MANAWATU, Mr Cobbe was born in Ireland, and on coming to New Zealand took up farming in the Wanganui district. Among the positions he has held are the chairmanship of the Feilding Farmers’ Freezing Company, the presidency of the Feilding Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and Manawatu representative oh the Wellington Harbour Board. On winning the Oroua seat in 1928 he was appointed Minister for Industries and Commerce and for Marine in the United Ministry, and he was Minister for Defence and for Justice in the Forbes Cabinet and also in the Coalition. He has a sheep farm at Waihapi. MB D. W. COLEMAN (L.), GISBORNE. Mr Coleman- is representing Gisborne for the third time; He has been connected with the Labour movement in that district for 25 years and has had considerable local body experience, being Mayor of Gisborne and a member of the Hospital Board. He was born in London in 1881. MR H. E. COMBS (L.), WELLINGTON SUBURBS. Mr Combs was for more than 20 years closely identified with the activities of the Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association, of which he was general secretary and advocate. In 1926 Mr Combs joined two other Labour men in a printing business, with which he is still associated. He contested Wellington North in 1922 and 1925 without success. However, he found time to continue his Labour activities and was sent by the national office to Hawke’s Bay in 1928 and to Taranaki in j 1931 to organise. He was largely responsible for the formation of a branch in Hataitai and was elected the first president.

*HE HON. H. T. ARMSTRONG (L.), - CHRISTCHURCH EAST. Mr. Armstrong, who is Minister for was born in the North Island inrIVTS and followed the occupation of flaxmiller and miner. He was prominent in the formation of the Minds’ Federation and the Federation of Labour, and was president of the Waihi Miners’ and Workers’ Union, and secretary' of the West Coast Workers’ Union and the Christchurch Tramway Employees’ Union. He came to Christchurch in 1916 and served on many local bodies. He was elected for Christchurch East in 1922. He first flood for Parliament in the Auckland Province in 1908 and was unsuccessful tor Christchurch North in 1919.

aiß H. ATMORE (I.), NELSON Mr Atmore was born at Nelson in Educated at the public school, he was apprenticed to sign-writing. After two unsuccessful attempts, he was elected for Nelson in 1911, and was defeated at the 1914 election. He failed in the by-election for Wellington Central in 1918, but was returned for Nelson again in 1919. In 1928 he was returned as an Independent, but joined the United Party, and was appointed Minister for Education. When the Coalition was- formed, he retired from'the Cabinet, and became an Independent. . ' '

THE HON. W. E. BARNARD (L.), NAPIER.

Mr Barnard, who is Speaker of the Bouse, was born at Helensville, and House, was born at Helensville and began practice as a solicitor there in 1908 where he was president of the chamber of commerce. He joined the Labour Party in 1922 and helped to form the Helensville branch, 1 of which he was secretary for five years. He was also president of the Kaipara Labour Representation Committee. In 1925 he moved *o Napier, and the same year he unsuccessfully contested the Kaipara seat ■gainst the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates. He *ras elected for Napier in 1928, and was appointed the first Labour Speaker of the House.

itt c. A. BARREL!, (L.), HAMILTON. Mr Barrel! was born at Rangiora. He took up farming for a time, but , “Mr joined the Railway Department fpp qualified as an engineer. He was \ interested in military activities and •“tone staff sergeant-major in the local unit At the age of 27 years he accepted a position with the firm of Booth, Macdonald, and Company, Ltd., soon beconung branch manager at New Plymouth, and later at Auckland. He to Invercargill in charge of the tons engineering worlds, being promoted to branch inspector. In 1929 ne commenced business in Hamilton on his own account as a trader in tom -implements. He was president of the Hamilton Bowling Club for two years. He won the seat in 1935.

•tt J. G, BARCLAY (L.), MARSDEN. . Mr Barclay, who represents Marsden the second time, is' a well-known Wortti Auckland farmer. He was born on Banks Peninsula in 1882. He- was president of the Kaipara branch of the party, and at the 1928 General Election opposed the then Prime Minister, the «t, Hon. J. G. Coates, in the Kaipara electorate. He has been a member of the North Auckland Electric Power Board and the Kaipara Hospital Board end was once chairman of the Omana School Committee. Upon his return nrom the Great War he purchased a of 1600 acres at Omana, on the Wairoa river. Thirteen years ff® ho was elected a director of the Company a * roa Co-operative Dairy Mr W. a. BODKIN (N.), central OTAGO. CwL ? odkin was born in 1885 at »2i e tsv!? wn ’ and started work at the I 2 on tus father’s farm at Clyde. 1° study law, he came to and attended Wilson’s in Cranmer square. In 1905 1b law classes and worked i ,°® ces in Dunedin, and four : at ? r be was admitted as a barsolicitor, and bought a pracAlexandra. In 1914, he un■uwessfuliy contested the seat, and he 1928, He was chairman of wmnuttees m the United Government.

c. W. BOSWELL (L,), BAY OF

MR J. B. F. COTTERILL (L.), WANGANUI.

ISLANDS. has been headmaster of , akalcawa District High School V* 85- . *l° was bom in the CorojJdistrict, and after experience i an S oUl lb ry schools hq. went to Auckwhere he took his degree as

Mr Cotterill is 32 years of age. He was born and educated at Wanganui. He was a railway servant until he won the seat in 1935. Keen on every kind of sport, he represented Wanganui at Rugby in 1930 and was prominent in

swimming.', and rowing administration. He took a leadirigi'part in establishing a free ambulance service in Wanganui.

MR E. L. CULLEN (L.), HAWKE’S BAY.

Mr .Cullen, was born at Havelock North and was. educated at the Napier Boys’ High School. After his return from the war he took up farming in the Wairoa district. He has been actively engaged in matters o# public interest and is a the Wairoa Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd. _Mr Cullen unsuccessfully contested the Hawke’s Bay seat in 1031 and won it in 1035.

MR W. M. C. DENHAM (L). INVERCARGILL.

Mr Denham .was born in Australia in 1888 and was educated in Sydney. He arrived in New, Zealand 26 years ago, and went to Tnvercargill four years later. For 20 years he was, engaged in the general grocery trade;, and for the greater part of his residence in Invercargill he was -connected with the Labour movement. Nine years ; ago Mr Denham was elected to the Invercargill City Council, and for seven y&ars was a . member of the Southland Technical College Board of Managers. He was also a member of the Invercargill Town >Plahning 'Board. He was man of the amalgamation committee which was responsible for the bringing about of the amalgamation of part of the borough of south Invercargill with Greater Invercargill. He won the seat in 1935. MR H. G. DICKIE (N.), PAXEA. Mr Dickie is a member of a wellknown Taranaki family. He was bom at Patea in 1874 and has taken an active interest in all types of local bodies in South Taranaki. As chairman of directors of the Patea Meat Company he made a special trip to London in 1924. to investigate marketing conditions. He was on active service during the war. Mr Dickie has held the Patea seat since 1923;

MB F. W. DOIDOE (N.). TAURANGA.

Mr Doidge is a prominent journalist. He entered the profession in 1903, and became first president of the New Zealand Journalists’ Association. After service in France with the New Zealand Division, he was transferred to the Ministry' of Information in London —a war-time department established for propaganda—and subsequently entered Fleet street, becoming a director of three of the world’s greatest newspapers. He organised Lord Beaverbrook’s Empire Crusade. On retiring from the Beaverbrook service, he returned to New Zealand four months before the election in 1935, and contested, unsuccessfully, the Rotorua seat as an Independent. He was also defeated at the Manakau by-election as a National candidate, in 1936. MB W. P. ENDEAN (N ). kLMUERA. Mr Endean was educated at the Auckland Grammar School and graduated LL.B. at the Auckland University College. From 1909 till 1930, when he retired, he practised in Auckland. A widely-known sportsman, he is especially keen on yachting and during the war he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and saw service in European waters. He was returned as a Reform member at the by-election in 1930. THE RT. HON. G. \V. FORBES (N.), HURUNUI. Mr Forbes has held this seat since 1908. Born at Lyttelton in 1869, he was educated there and at the Christchurch Boys’ High School. He was a prominent footballer, and was in the hardware trade before he took up a block in the Cheviot Estate in the nineties. Throughout the 1925-28 Parliament he led the National Party, and wa~ Minister for Lands and Agriculture when Sir Joseph Ward formed his Cabinet in 1928. In 1930 he was elected Leader of the United Government, and in 1931 formed the Coalition and was chosen as Prime Minister. He represented New Zealand at the Imperial Conference in 1930. HON. P. FRASER, WELLINGTON . CENTRAL. Mr Fraser was born in Ross-shire, North' of Scotland, in 1884, and early became associated with the crofters’ agitation against the private landlord system. He joined the Independent Labour Party in London in 1909, and came to New Zealand in 1910. He worked in various parts of the North Island as a labourer and watersider and joined the Socialist Party.. He was elected for Wellington, Central in 1919, and has held the seat ever since. He sat. on the Wellington City Council and the Education Board for several years. He was - secretary of the Parliamentary Labour Party before being appointed Minister for Education after the 1935 election.

MR F. L. FROST (L.), NEW PLYMOUTH.

Mr Frost, who first contested New Plymouth in 1931, was formerly minister of Taradale. Hawke’s Bay. He was born in Northumberland, England, and as a young man worked in the mines. Ho left the Old Country in 1909 for Australia, where he obtained employment in the western mines of New South Wales. Some years ago he came to New Zealand, where he has resided ever since. In his youth, Mr Frost was a great reader of books, and after years of study and work he was ordained in the Durham Street Methodist Church, Christchurch.

MR W. S. GOOSMAN (N.). WAIKATO. Mr Goosman, who is 48 years of age, is managing director of one of the biggest contracting and road-making firms in New Zealand. The youngest son of the late Mr and Mrs George Goosman, of Mangere, and a nephew of the late Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey, he was born at Auckland and educated at Mangere. He worked on a sheep station in the Gisborne district, farmed on a share milking basis in the Waikato, and later purchased farms at Tamahere and Tauwharo. In 1920, he purchased a farm at Waitoa, and shortly afterwards established ‘the firm of W. S. Goosman and Company, Ltd. He was at one time a member of the executive of the Auckland branch of the Farmers’ Union, and is still a big farmer in the Waikato and Thames Valley districts.

HON, F. LANG STONE (L.), WAIMARINO. Mr Langstone, the Minister, for Lands, was for many years associated with the Shearers’ Union, later becoming keeper of the railway refreshment rooms and a restaurateur in Taumarunui. He first stood for Waimarino at the 1919 election, and was returned in 1922, only to be defeated by Mr R. W. Smith by 140 votes three years later. He has held the seat since 1928. MR E. B. GORDON (N.), RANGITIKEI. Mr Gordon is a son of the late Rev. David Gordon, whose memory is revered by all who were associated with him in the days of his ministry, more than 30 years ago, at St. Andrew’s, Marton. Mr Gordon is a wellknown farmer, and has taken a ready part in all the activities now associated with this occupation, being chairman of the Marton branch of the Farmers’ Union, and vice-president of the Marton Agricultural and Pastoral Association. He has always taken a keen interest in politics, and is described as holding progressive opinions on a number of important topics, although he is strongly opposed to Socialistic tendencies. MB A. N. GRIGG (N.), MIDCANTERBURY. Mr Grigg, who is a farmer at Surrey Hills, is the third son of the late Mr J. C. N. Grigg, and was born at Longbeach in 1890. He was educated at Huntley School (Marton) and Christ’s College. He enlisted in England in 1916 and served with the Royal Field Artillery, rising to a captaincy and winning the Military Cross. He farmed a portion of Longbeach before buying his present property in 1927. He has been president of both the Ashburton and Mayfield Agricultural and Pastoral Associations, and in 1936 was delegate to the electoral college of the Meat Board. His sporting Interests ,are wide;, he-is deputy-master of - the Ashburton Hunt Club, and has been a competitor, judge, referee, and administrator in boxing. He is a member of the Ashburton County Council. MR J. HARGEST (N.). AWARUA. Mr Hargest, who was born at Gore in 1891, was farming until war broke out, when he left with the main body as a second-lieutenant in the Southland Mounted Rifles, He was severely wounded at Gallipoli, but left New Zealand again in 1916 for France, where he had a distinguished career, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in charge of the Otago Regiment. After farming at Mandeville, he purchased a property at Rakahouka, which Ire has since farmed. He has been a member of the Land Bard, the Land Purchase Board, and the Assessment Court in Southland. He won Invercargill, after three attempts, in 1931, and was successful for Awarua in 1935. MR J. HODGENS (L.), PALMERSTON. Mr Hodgens was born in the Nelson district, and has been a resident of Palmerston North for the last 32 years. A builder by occupation, he has been a member of-the Carpenters’ and Joiners’ Union for many years. Mr Hodgens was a member of tjje Palmerston North Repatriation Board for the whole period of its operations. He occupied a seat on the Palmerston licensing bench, and has'been a member of the Manawatu-Oroua Power Board. In 1919 he was elected to the Palmerston North Borough Council, and, with the exception of a break for two years in 1921 and 1922, he sat at the council table continuously. He was elected to Parliament in 1935. MR S. G. HOLLAND (N.), CHRISTCHURCH NORTH Mr Holland, who won the seat in 1935, is one of the leaders of the National Party,' being Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition. He was formerly manager of W. A. McLaren, and Company, Ltd., motor traders and importers, and is a director of several companies. He was born at Greendale in 1893 and was educated at the West Christchurch District High School. He was with the New Zealand Field Artillery in France frbm 1915 to 1917, when, he was invalided home In 1917. He has been chairman df the Christchurch Citizens’ Association and the Canterbury

Employers’ Association. As a player, manager, selector, and coach, he has given notable service to hockey. He succeeded his fathel-, Mr H. Holland, as member for Christchurch North, and became prominent by his vigorous speeches on behalf of the Opposition. MB E. J. HOWARD (L.), CHRISTCHURCH SOUTH. Mr Howard, who is Chairman of Committees, first came to New Zealand from Bristol as a seaman, and later returned to marry in Christchurch. He was a foreman smelter in Australia, and after studying chemistry at Adelaide School of Mines he joined a syndicate to. prospect in the Macdonald ranges, Central Australia, for gold. Retui-ning to Christchurch in 1902 with his children, following his wife’s death, he joined the Labour movement, and after being seex-etary. of the General Labourers’ Union, he won this seat in 1919. He has served on nearly every local body in Christchurch, and was one of the party whips for 16 years. MR A. G. HULTQUIST (L.) f BAY OF PLENTY < Mr Hultquist is an electrical enr gineer, and is 34 years of age. He was prominent in Labour circles* in Auckland and has been secretary, president and auditor of the Auckland Trades and Labour Council, being sent regularly to political and industrial conferences. As president of the Grey Lynn branch of the Labour Party, he was chairmaxx of Mr J. A. Lee’s election committee in 1931. He is a winner of the Auckland Athenaeum Society’s gold medal for oratory.

THE HON. F, JONES (L.), DUNEDIN SOUTH.

Mr Jones, who was PostmasterGeneral and Minister for Defence in the first Labour Government, is a native of Dunedin. A boot clicker by trade, he was a member of the Otago Labour Council from 1912,. and was president three times. He was a member of the National Executive of the New Zealand Labour Party for seven years. He was a member of the Dunedin City Council, resigning about a year ago. MR A. E. JDLL (N.), WAIPAWA. Mr Jull was born and educated in Canada and came to New Zealand in 1877. He took a- lively interest in friendly society work and local bodies, being a member of several public bodies in the Waipawa district, president of the Counties Association, and a member of the Main Highways Board, representing counties. He is a past president of the New Zealand Fire Brigades’ Association. From 1911 until he was finally selected at the by-' election in 1930, he contested the Waipawa seat against Sir George Hunter. He was defeatel by Mr H. M. Christie at the 1935 election. MR D. C. KJDD (N.), WAITAKI. Mr Kidd is a farmer at Single Hill, Burke’s Pass. Shortly after the new member was born at Shag Point In 1889 his father took up a sheep run at Albury, South Canterbury, and after being educated at the Albury School Mr Kidd worked on his father’s run. Mr Kidd, sen., retired in 1909 and, hi company with his brother, the member worked the,property until the end of 1915, when he enlisted and served in Palestine, being wounded at the Battle of Gaza. After the war he farmed in Central Otago, and in 1922 he bought his present property.- A member of the Canterbury Land Board, he is also president, and a foundation merrfber, of the Crown Tenants’ Association. He was elected to the Timaru Harbour Board In 1935. MR T. H. LANGFORD (L.), RICCABTON. Mr Langford is No. 3 Transport Licensing Authority. He was educated at the Richmond School and the West Christchurch District High SchooL He lived at Winchester for many years and conducted a store there. He was for four years a member of the South Canterbury Power .Board, 10 years chairman of the Winchester School Committee, four years on the Temuka Unemployment Committee, and a member of the Domain Board for many years. He was defeated for Temuka at the 1935 election. He saw two years' active service in the war,