Four ballots to pick Tonsariro candidate
PA New Plymouth It took, four ballots in Taumarunui to find the National Party’s candidate for the Tongariro electorate at the General Election.
An Opotiki postal clerk, Mr lan Peters, aged 45, the elder brother of Tauranga Mr Winston Peters, (Nat. Tauranga), took the final nod from 69 delegates.
A Galates dairy farmer, Mr Barry Doney, was
dropped on the first ballot. Next to go was a former Labour Party member of Parliament for Taupo, Mr Jack Ridley, then on the third ballot Mr Sandy Garland,
a Mangakino sheep and cattle farmer, was dismissed.
It then became the twoway contest between Mr Peters and an Atiamuri bull-beef farmer, Mr Michael Allan.
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Press, 20 December 1986, Page 8
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