National picks candidate
PA Auckland National Party delegates last evening chose an Auckland economist, Dr D. T. Brash, as their candidate in the East Coast Bays byelection.
Dr Brash, aged 39, easily defeated the three other contenders for the nomination. He is general manager of the Broadbank Corporation, chairman of the Economic Monitoring Group, and a member of the Planning Council.
Party voting delegates needed only one ballot to make their selection. The unsuccessful candidates were Mrs Lesley Miller, a staff member of the Prime Minister’s Department in Wellington, Mr W. W. Rayner, deputy-chairman and secretary of the East Coast Bays electorate, and Mrs Sue Wood, the party’s woman vice-president, who contested the recent Onehunga byelection for National. Dr Brash said that he was delighted to be chosen, and very surprised that he had won the nomination on the first ballot. He said that he would seek leave from his job to campaign for the by-election. He had resigned from the chairmanship of the Economic Monitoring Group and if elected to Parliament would have to resign from the Planning Council.
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