BAY OF PLENTY SEAT

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28213, 27 February 1957, Page 12

BAY OF PLENTY SEAT

National Party Candidate (New Zealand Press Association) OPOTIKI, February 26. The Bay of Plenty division of the National Party announces that seven names will go before the selection committee when it meets on March 11 to select a candidate for .the by-election of the Bay of Plenty seat. For the first time, the name of an Opotiki resident will go for-: ward to the selection committee. He is David Norman Perry. Mr Perry, who is 42, was attached as Y.M.C.A. officer to the Maori battalion during World War 11. For seven years he has been secretary of the Tekaha Co-opera-tive Dairy Company. He was associated with Sir Apirana Ngata in tribal work, and became interested in the decentralisation of industry when he was appointed supervisor of a clothing factory in this district. For six years he was with the Maori Affairs Department as district welfare officer. He has also been an executive officer of the Crippled Children Society since its inception in Opotiki As Dominion secretary of the New Life Movement in the Presbyterian Church, Mr Perry has given wide service to the church.

The six other candidates to go before the selection committee are: Mr L. R. Adams-Schneider, a businessman, of Taumarunui: Mr A. T. Dillon, a farmer, of Te Kuiti; Mr P. B. Allen, a contractor, of Rotorua, who stood at the last election for Rotorua; Mr D. C. Butler, a farmer, of Whakatane; Mr R. E. Gambrill, a solicitor, of Gisborne; and Mr D. S. Radcliffe, a farmer, of Edgecombe.