GENERAL ELECTION

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 301, 20 September 1928, Page 11

GENERAL ELECTION

MID-CANTERBURY SEAT MR. D. JONES REFORM CANDIDATE The official Reform candidate for the Mid-Canterbury seat at the genera! elections will be Mr. D. Jones, the present member for Ellesmere. In making an announcement to this effect yesterday, the Prime Minister (Right Hon. J. G. Coates), in whose hands had been left the matter of selecting a candidate, said that he had received advice from the Hon. W. Nosworthy that he did not now intend to contest the seat and, consequently, the arrangement made previously between Mr. Nosworthy and Mr. Jones would stand. The latter, therefore, will be the official Reform candidate. “In view of Mr. Nosworthy’s long period of service, both to the district and to the Dominion,” added Mr. Coates, “I feel sure that the intimation of his retirement from the active political arena will be received with regret by his many friends. This regret, I need hardly say, is shared by myself and his other colleagues in the Government. I may point out, however, that a very large portion ef the Ellesmere electorate has been included in the new Mid-Canterbury district, and that in the present member for Ellesmere the electors of Mid-Canter-bury will have as the Government candidate a man who would, by his wide public experience, worthily represent them in Parliament.”

WELLINGTON SOUTH

MR. F. M. LUCKIE’S CANDIDA-

A well-attended and enthusiastic meeting of Mr. F. M. Luckie’s supporters was held at the central committee rooms, Newtown, last evening, when a strong central committee was formed, with Mr. A. R. Hornblow as chairman. In introducing the candidate, Mr. Hornblow said he considered that in Mr. Luckie they had a chance of securing a representative in the Reform interest who would do honour to Wellington South. He felt assured that he would be returned at the head of the poll, and that he would eventually be found in the forefront of the politicians of the Dominion. Arrangements were made for forming committees at Island Bay and Berhampore, and it was decided that the central committee should meet on each Wednesday evening. Satisfactory reports were handed in from various parts of the electorate, and it was arranged to make a thorough canvass of the electors. It was decided to form ladies’, committees in the various centres immediately. FRANKLIN ELECTORATE By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, September 18. Mr. E. D. McLennan, M.P. for Franklin. announced to a meeting of party supporters at Waiuku to-day that, acting under medical advice, he had decided not to contest the seat at the general election. A party conference will be held at Pukekohe two weeks hence to nominate the official Reform candidate.