A REFORM PARTY MEETING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 735, 7 February 1910, Page 4

A REFORM PARTY MEETING.

THE HAWSE'S BAT SEAT.

v CHOOSING A CANDIDATE. ■ (By Telegraph.—Sdscl&l Oorreipondentl Napter, February A meeting or supporters ,of the Oppow ; tion party was held at' Hastings, and .waj well attended. 'Sir Wm. Eussoll presided. Mr. E. E. Martin, -political organisaD for th® Reform party, gave a- short address on the political situation, aftep which the selection :of a candidate to contest the Hawke's .Bay seat in the party's; interest- was' discussed. ■ ;' . It isr understood that/Messrs. E . Iy , D. M'Lean and Mason Chambers declined nomination," and ; that .the meeting - ulti-, - mately resolved'to nominate- Messrs.' -A< - H. 'Bnssell, Hugh Campbell (Poukawa), and E. J. Watt . ...- . ' Similar - meetings will be - Mid- in vanou3 ceptresr anaß. • general ballot Willi subsequently- be taken, to fir. the candidate who is to receive the combined' support of tho'Opposition at the next elections. . - - . .- -, ■ _ .-• Messrs.- C. E. Johnston and J. l>. Rivers ; are • reported \to r, have:, been/- ap- . pointed'secretaries to the Hastings Cony mittee. V;