THE GENERAL ELECTION

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24022, 10 August 1943, Page 4

THE GENERAL ELECTION

♦ Hurunui Seat NATIONAL CANDIDATE SELECTED The official National Party candidate for the Hurunui seat at the General Election is Mr W. H. Gillespie, of Bennetts. The seat has been held by the Rt. Hon. G. W. forbes since 1908. but the selection of a candidate was necessary as Mr Forbes is retiring from political life at the close of the Parliamentary session. Mr Gillespie was selected for the seat at a meeting of 106 Hurunui branch delegates, which was held at Rangiora yesterday. The president of the Canterbury division of the National Party (Mr T, N. Gibbs) presided. There were six other nominations, including those of Mr M. E. Lyons, of Christchurch, who was the Nationai Party candidate in the Christchurch East by-election, and Captain Richard Bethell, of Culverden, who is serving with the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Middle East. Others were Messrs E. A. F. Wilding. Conway Flat, C. G. Abbott, Cheviot, A J. R. Blakely, Waikari, and V. J. Corbett, Rangiora. Mr Gillespie, who is a farmer, is 49 years of age. He served overseas with the N.Z.E.F. in the last war, and was senior staff instructor for the New Zealand forces in Egypt at the end of the war. He is a member of the Oxford County Council, and the district primary production committee, and commands the Oxford Home Guard. Also he is on the directorate of the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association. Ltd. There will be at least four candidates for the Hurunui seat when the election campaign begins. Two Independents, Miss Mary McLean and Mrs E. A. Hotchkin, are already in the field, and a Labour Party candidate has still to be selected. No indication has been given as to whether the Democratic Soldier Labour Party proposes to put forward a candidate.

OAMARU SEAT

NATIONALIST CANDIDATE ANNOUNCED From ,Our Parliamentary Reporter WELLINGTON, August 9. The selection of Sergeant T. R. Beattie, New Zealand Transport Service, as the National Party’s candidate to contest the Oamaru seat at the forthcoming General Election, was announced to-night. Before entering the Army Sergeant Beattie was a building contractor in Oamaru. The unsuccessful nominees were M r W. R. Williams, also a building contractor, of Oamaru, and Mr J, B. Chapman, a well-known retired farmer. The Hon. A. H. Nordmcyor, the sitting member, is the official Labour candidate, and Mr G. P. Cuttriss, a prominent businessman, is an independent candidate sponsored by the People’s Movement, thus making a three-cornered election.

THREE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES

NORTH ISLAND SEATS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, August 9. The following additional election candidates are announced as members of the independent group sponsored by the People's Movement:— Remucra: Flying Officer E. W. Sinton. At the age of 22 Flying Officer Sinton founded the wholesale hardware business of E, W. Sinton. Ltd. He is at present a director of that and three other companies. He was vicepresident of the Bureau of Importers at the time of volunteering in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He is 37. married, with two children. Masterton: Captain Justin Power. Captain Power, v ho is 49, served for four years overseas in the last war and rose from th. of private to captain. He served two years in this war in the 2nd Echelon, and was mentioned in dispatches for distinguished service in the field in 1942. He has three sons serving in the present war, Auckland West; Staff-Sergeant H. M. Bagnall. Staff Sergeant Bagnall is a member of a well-known sawmilling and farming family, with interests in Turua, Thames Valley, and Auckland. He was connected with the transport industry in Auckland and Wellington for 15 years before the war. FOUR CANDIDATES FOR NEW PLYMOUTH (P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH. August 9. Mr Leonard Arthur Jury, a farmer, of Brixton, near New Plymouth, has been nominated as a Democratic Labour candidate for the New Plymouth seat. There are now four candidates for the seat. LABOUR CANDIDATE FOR WESTERN MAORI (P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, August 9. Mr Pei Te Hurinui Jones, a licensed Maori interpreter, of Hawera. is standing as the Labour candidate for Western Maori, sponsored by Princess Te Puca and members of the Maori King family. He has twice unsuccessfully contested the Western Maori seat as an Independent.