A POSSIBLE REFORM CANDIDATE

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1215, 25 August 1911, Page 5

A POSSIBLE REFORM CANDIDATE

« SCORES IN MUNICIPAL ELECTION. (By TclegranlL-SDOcial Correspondent.) Christchurch, August 21. Mr. 11. D. Acland, a young lawyer and a partner of Mr. I l '. Wilding, (he wellknown cricketer and athlete, had no difficulty to-day in securing tho vacant scot on tho City Council. Ho had as his opponents, a hairdresser's assistant (tho candidate of tho Labour Representation Committee), Dr. Thnckor, who contested tho Mayoralty in April, and n Socialist put forward by the general Labourers' Union, and the Socialist wing of tho Labour parly. Mr. Aclaud polled more votes lhnn~\ta« Labour and Socialist candidates put together, and was some GOO ahead of Dr. Thackor, who filled tho second place. Mr. Aclnnd's name has been mentioned Mr. Aclond's name hns been mentioned a good deal lately as n Reform party candidate for one of tho city or suburban sea's. This municipal success I o-day should bo of some assistance to him if ho decides to come out at the general elections, He is a son of the Into Jlon. J. B. A. Aclnud, of Mount l'ec'l, South Canterbury, and hns taken an nc!i,*e and prominent part iii the affairs of the Shccpownors' Union, while he won good opinions by his couducfc in-the case for liio employers iu the farm labourers' dispute beloro lh« Conciliation Hoard some years ago. lie has the happy knack of being able to oppose a man without creating bitterness, with the result that ho wins support in unexpected quarters.

Tho candidature of Iho Rocinlisf. has widened the split in the local Labour party. Th<; revolutionary Socialists profess contempt lor the evolutionaries, and (he Socialist's speech at the declaration of the .poll was not at all calculated to heal the breach... ' ' ,