LOCAL BODY CANDIDATES

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 190, 10 May 1938, Page 7

LOCAL BODY CANDIDATES

Brief Biographical Sketches

WHO’S WHO IN THE ELECTIONS

TO-MORROW

To assist those voting in Wellington at the elections to-niurruw for the mayoralty, city council, hospital board and harbour board the following brief biographies of candidates have been compiled. Tn addition to the mayor, 15 are required for the city council. Thirteen are required for the hospital board and four for the harbour board.

WELLINGTON CITY

Mayoralty Mr. T. U. A. Hislop, the sitting mayor and the Citizen./ candidate for the mayoralty, w a son of the late lion. T. W. Hislop, a former mayor of Wellington, and a grandson of the late John Hislop, LL.D., F.R.S., a noted educationist who was in large measure responsible for the Education Act of 1875, which remained practically unaltered until 1914. Mr. T. C. A. Hislop was educated at Wellington College and Cambridge University, whence he returned in 1911 to enter the old-estab-lished legal office of Brandon, Hislop and Brandon. In 1912 he was elected to the city council, from which lie resigned in 1914 to go to the war. He served with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Gallipoli and France until October, 1918, being twice wounded, and attaining the rank of captain. In 1927 he was again elected to the city council. In 1931 lie was elected mayor, to which office he was returned unopposed in 1933. In 1935 Mr. Hislop was again returned as mayor of the city. Apart from his public career he is a past president of the Wellington District Law Society, president of the Wellington Aero Club, and of numerous philanthropic Institutions, besides being an active leader and participant in many forms of sport. Mr. Hislop is also chairman of directors of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition Company.

Mr. C.’H. Chapman, M.P., the Labour candidate for the mayoralty, has been connected with the Labour movement since he was 17 years of age. He was a foundation member of the. Independent Labour Party of Great Britain, which elected him to life membership on his. departure for New Zealand. He identified himself with the Labour movement in this country shortly after his arrival, and in 1915, 1925 and 1927 unsuccessfully contested the Wellington mayoralty.. He was first elected to the city council in 1919 and lias served on this body for 12 years. He was a member of the Wellington Harbour Board for 12 years, the hospital board for a similar period, and of the Wellington Technical College board of governors for 14 years. In 1928 he. was the successful Parliamentary, candidate for Christchurch North. Social welfare has always occupied a prominent place in Sir. Chapman’s activities and lie has identified himself with a. number of movements having for their object the upliftment of the unfortunate and the needy. He has for many years been chairman of the Wellington Centre of the Red Cross Society and has been a member of the Free Ambulance board since its inception. He has given his services to the Health Week as honorary secretary on two occasions.

Council Seats

Mr, Will Appleton (Citizens), a resident of Wellington for 32 years, retired from active business some live years ago, but is a director of several important trading, manufacturing and industrial companies, and for five years has been a member of the Mortgage Adjustment Commission. Mr. Appleton has had 25 years’ service on local bodies, including the Onslow Borough Council, the Wellington Hospital Board, city council, Technical College 1 board of governors, water board and Highways Board. Il or the last seven years he lias been a member of the finance, works, trams and electric light, and milk committees of the city council, acting as chairman of the works committee for the past three years. He lms also been prominently associated with various Wellington social organisations.

Dr. L. G. Austin (Independent) was educated at the Christchurch Boys’ High School, and entered the teaching profession. After teaching engagements in Canterbury and Hawke’s Bay, he qualified in medicine at the Otago University in 1923, and has been on the staffs of several hospitals in both islands. He has been in private practice in Wellington for the nast 12 years. Mr. K. Baxter (Labour) is secretary of the New Zealand Printing Trades Federation and of the Wellington branch or the federation, and he is on the executive of both the local Trades Council _ and the Labour Representation Committee. He is the delegate of the trade unions on the Technical College Board. Mr. A. Black (Labour) was first elected to the city council in 1935. He has had a long association with the Labour Party. He has been for 14 years secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, and was secretary of the Labour Representation Committee for several years. He was president of the East V'ogeltown Progressive Association prior to bis election to the city council. Tho Hon. T. Brindle (Labour) lias been closely associated with the Labour movement in New Zealand lor the past 25 years. He has been a member of the city council since 1933, and represented it upon the Technical College Board and Fire Board. He is a past-president of the New Zealand Labour Party and is a member of the national executive at the present time. He has contested various seats in .Parliamentary elections and is a member of the Legislative CounCil jlr. W. N.'Broadley (Labour) is secretary of the Wellington Tramway Union. He was vice-president of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council, and he is now a member of the local Trades Council executive. For many years Mr. Broadlev took an active interest in friendly society work and for four years was Grand Lodge representative. Mr. P. M. Butler (Labour) was first elected to the city council in 1933. He has been closely associated with the Labour movement, both politically and industrially, for the past 16 years. He is secretary of the "Wellington k>ii.il(iers and General Labourers’ Union, and of the National Federation, of Labourers. He is also a member of the national executive of the Labour laity. Mi. Butler was the first chairman of the Wellington Citizens’ Unemployment Committee, and was chairman of the commission set up by the Government to investigate the taxi and town rallying industry. . Mr. J. 11. Collins (Labour) is the national secretary of the New Zealand Musicians’ Union .and is also secretary of the Wellington Labour Representation Committee, as well as occupying other union secretaryships. He is an executive member of the Wellington Trades Council ot the Federation of Labour and is a member of the music coinmil tec of the Centennial Exhibition. Mr. William Duncan (Citizens), a prominent Wellington business man, han been a member of the city council for the past seven years and served <m numerous committees, Inking a particular nilerest in reserves. He was lor many years prominently connected with the M ellnigton Football Association and has also taken a keen interest in yachting and is commodore of the Port. Nicholson Yachting Club. Mr. M. Fraser, C.V.0., 0.8. E., J.I (Citizens), lias been a Wellington resident for forty-live _ years, lie was Government Statistician lor 21 years and Under-Secretary of Internal Affairs, mid now is chairman and managing director of the Eiputable Building and Investment Company, a trustee of the New Zealand Presbyterian Church, member of the Wellington Rotary .club, lion. secretary New Zealand Crippled Children’s Society and vice-president or the Wellington Economic Society. Among

sport activities he has been an Association football representative player has been a member of the council of the M ellington Lawn Tennis Association and the New Zealand Lawn Tennis Association, and president of the 'Wellington table Tennis Association.

Mr. Thomas Forsyth (Citizens), publie accountant, was elected to the city council first in April. 1919, and since then served for a further six terms. lie was nominated by the Civic League tor the mayoralty in 1925, but retired in favour of Mr. C. J. Norwood, who was elected. He has also served on many educational governing bodies during the past 20 years and was chairman of the Wellington Education Board for 16 years. Mr. M. S. Galloway (Citizens) is a fellow o£ the New Zealand Institute of Secretaries. He takes a keen, interest in all sports. He served >n Gallipoli, Egypt and France, rising to a company commander and being decorated for gallantry nt the Somme. 1916. He has been chair, man of the Khandailah Progressive Association for some years; served IL years on the local school committee.; and is vicepresident of various local bodies.. He takes a keen interest in church affairs and music. For some years he was on the executive of the Show Association. Mr. W. J. Gaudin (Citizens) is a wellknown Wellington business man, , being principal of the firm of W. J. Gaudin and Son. Ho has been on the city council lor 16 years and has served on the tramways, works, health, legislation and reserves committees; also on the Wellington Technical College board of governors and the Wellington Fire Board. In his younger days he was prominent in 'Wellington rowing circles. ~, Mr. C. J. Hay (Labour) was one of the founders and first directors ol the Union Construction Company, a co-operative building company. For the past two years he has been chairman ot the Worser Bay School Committee. He has taken an active interest in the welfare of youth in his position as chairman, of the carpenters and joiners’ apprenticeship committee. He is well known in sport and tootball circles. . , Mr. M. M. F. Luckie (Citizens), barrister and solicitor, member of the firm of Luckie, Wiren and Kennard, was born in Nelson, educated at Thorndon School and Wellington College. Has been a member of the city council since 1913, deputy-mayor for eight years at intervals, chairman of by-laws committee and member of reserves, milk and legislation committees. Mr. Luckie is president M ellington Cricket Association and Wellington Women’s Cricket Association, vicepresident Wellington Hockey Association and Wellington Ladies’ Hockey Association, and vice-president New Zealand Cricket Council. Mr. It. L. Macalister (Citizens) is a member of tiie firm of Mazeugarb, .Hay and Macalister, barristers and solicitors. He is a prominent member of the Wellington Beautifying Society and. a. member of the 'Wellington War Relief Association. Mr. Macalister has been a candidate for the city council previously and was defeated for a seat on the council in 1933 on a recount only. Mr. M. G. C. McCaul (Citizens) has resided in Wellington for 54 years and has been engaged in business for 40 years. He is president of the Town Planning Institute of New Zealand and chairman of the Wellington branch, a trustee of the employers’ federation, district commissioner (Wellington South) Boy Scouts’ Association, past-president of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce and of the Associated Chambers of Commerce. During the depression he was a member of the boys’ unemployment committee. Mr. R. McKcen, M.P. (Labour), is very well known in the Labour movement. He has represented Wellington South in Parliament since 1922, has been a city councillor since 1925, and is also a member of the harbour board. He was prominently associated with industrial labour activities for many years, having, been secretary of several New Zealand’ unions, and of the 'Wellington Labour Representation Committee.

Mr. L. S. W. McKenzie (Citizens) is a member of the retiring city council and chairman of the milk committee and a member of the reserves, health, and libraries committees. ■He was first elected a councillor in 1911, but resigned in 1923, and was rc-elected in 1933. He is chairman of the Wellington College Board of Governors and member of the 'Technical School Board and - Suburban Highways Board ; director of several city industries; life member and president of several clubs; president of the Wellington College Old Boys’ Association. Mr. John M, McLean (Citizens) lias been a resident of 'Wellington (except for one brief .period) and a ratepayer for over 30 years. He has liclcT executive positions in the General Post Office, aud for the six years prior to his retirement was Chief Postmaster, 'Wellington. During that six years he was a member of the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. De was the first president of the Post and Telegraph Officers’ Guild. Mr. McLean was a member of Ute Thorndon Bowling Club, the Shandon Golf Club and the automobile club.

Mr. R. W. McVilly (Citizens) was a member of the city council from 1927 to 1929. He retired from the position of General Manager of the New Zealand Railways some years ago. Mr. McVilly is keenly interested in all forms of sport. He is president of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association and the Wellington Boxing Association, and vice-pre-sident of the New Zealand Boxing Association. He has been a resident of Wellington for many years. Mr. N. W. Nelson (Citizens), a resident of Wellington of 25 years’ standing, retired from active business at the cud of last year after being manager of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Insurance Company, Ltd., for 12 years. He was chairman of the Wellington Fire Board for nine years. For four years he was president of the Tborndmi Bowling Club, Inc. Mr. Nelson is vicepresident of the . Wellington Football Club, and is keenly interested in all outdoor sports. Mr. A. Parlane (Labour) is a native of Canterbury, New Zealand, and is principally known through his connection with the Wellington Drivers’ Union and the New Zealand Drivers’ Federation. He has occupied the following positions: President of the Wellington Trades and Laliour Council, president of tiie Wellington Labour Representation Committee, president of the Wellington School Committees’ and Educational Federation, president of the Wadestown Municipal Electors’ Association. Mr. Parian? is chairman of the Wadestoivn School Committee, and patron of the Wadestown Cottage Garden and Beautifying Society, lie was one of those selected to represent Labour at the National Industrial Conference in 1928.

Mrs. J. 11. Probyn (Independent) bad teaching experience under the Wellington and Marlborough Education Boards, mid was instrumental in having teachers appointed to instruct children in hospitals. She was the first woman on the To Aro School Committee. Ah secretary of the Moral and Physical Health Society she was appointed to attend the courts on behalf of women mid children. She has done house-to-house visiting on behalf of the Bible in Schools League mid the Women’s National Reserve. ?.I.r. J. Read (Labour) was first elected to the city council at a by-election in 1936. He has taken mi active part in Labour politics and unionism since coming to New Zealand in 1901. having been secretary of the Wellington EngineDrivers’ Union for many years. He is at present secretary of the Wellington Timber Workers’ Union. He has unsuc-

cessfully contested the mayoralty and the Wellington North Parliamentary seat in Labours interests. Lie is a member ot the Technical College twaril ol Governors, and is cnairman ol the works committee ot the Centennial Exhibition Company.

Mrs. Al. St-mpio (Labour) is president I of tin; Wellington women’s bruneti of the. party, and was a former president ol tue .Labour Women a Conlerenee. Site has been a member of the executive of Lie Labour Kepriseutatiou Committee, and is a member of the Womens Unempljjmeat Commit tec. She has served on the hospital board lor a number of years. Air. 11. E. Swindell (Labour) has been connected with industrial lite lor 40 years. He reorganised the City, Council Dairy Employees’ Union, the Electrical Workers’ Union, and the Power Boards Employees’ Union. He drafted the first apprenticeship orders in New Zealand, tie was formerly secretary of the Wellington South branch of the Labour Party, and is also prominent in r nendiy Societies’ work. , Mr. J. Tucker (Labour) is a menmet of the Returned . Soldiers’ lie-estabris.i-ment Committee, lie served on uie Tobacco Inquiry in 1931, and was, utiiil the establishment of the federation ot Labour ehairman of the Wellington Trades and Labour Council. He attended, a.s fraternal delegate from New Zealand, the Trades Union Congress ol Great Britain, held at Norwich, England, last year. He is secretary of the Wellington Saddlers’ Union. Mr M Walsh (Labour) has lor miinj years' been an active worker lor the Labour Party. He worked lor the ostabImhment of the United h nendiy Societies Dispensary and was a member ot its controlling board. He has stood tor the city council on previous occasions. The Hon. Vincent Ward, M.L.C. (Citizens), io the second son of Sir Joseph Ward. He was abroad in his younger rears, and at 21 was elected a member ol the Council of the Board of Trade, Montreal. • He had a varied war service with the Canadian and British i'hees. and with tlie Admiralty in the North Sea and in the Ministry of Shipping On his return to New Zealand, Mr. Ward entered business. He won the Invercargi. seat in 1930. In 1934 he was appointed to the Legislative Council. He is a director of s-everal companies Air. Robert A. Wright, M.l. (Citizens), was elected to the city council tu 1913 and continued in office until dJ-t, when he was elected mayor, relinquishing J the chair in 1925. He again served as councillor at intervals from .1927 o«y ld - In 1913 he was elected a n ‘ el 1 n I b ®. r I . o£ harbour board, an office he held till 1921. From 1926 to 1928 he was Alinister of Education, and has represented Wellington Suburbs in the House of Representatives since 1914. Hospital Board Mr. W. Atkinson (Labour) has been interested in the Labour and political movement during all his adult lite, lie was president of the federation or Trades Councils for many years and was also vice-president of the Wellington Trades Council. Mr. Atkinson has been vice-president of the New Zealand Labour Party and a member of the national executive. He has previously stood tor the city council. . . Mr. F. Castle (Citizens), is a justice of of the peace and has been a member ot the Wellington Hospital Board lor Zb years. He was chairman from 19-9 to 1926 and from 1931 to 1936. He was president of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Society for many years, and is a member of Upper Hutt Borough CounCi \lrs. E. M. Chapman (Labour) has been a member of the hospital board lor several years. She has been engaged in philanthropic work, including the 4 lunket Society and Red Cross work, and work for the blind. She is also on the committee of the National Council of Women, was associated with the wellington Boys’'lnstitute and the League of Nations Union, and is a member of the Hataitai Plunket Society. Airs. B. M. Collins (Labour) has been a resident of Wellington for the past 30 years, and has been a member ot the board for three years. She is a member of the building and the social welfare committees. Airs. Collins was instrumental in arranging for the instalation of radio sets in the fever hospital, the Central Park Hospital, and the nurses home at the fever hospital. She was for several years secretary of the Wellington women's branch of the Labour Patty. Mr J. C. Crawford (Citizens) belongs to a family which settled in Wellington in 1839, and the members of which have frequently taken part in public affairs. Since returning from war service he has taken increased interest in business actii ities as a director of several companies. He is a steward of the Wellington Racing Club. , , Air. A. W. Croskcry (Labour) has been in the Labour movement for many years. For 'over 25 years he was secretary ,of the Wellington Shop Assistants Union and also secretary of the New Zealand Shop Assistants’ Federation. Last November .when the Second Court of Arbitration was set up, Mr. Croskery was elected us the workers' representative on that tribunal. He was elected to the hospital board three years ago and was selected by its members as chairman ot the house committee. Mr. J. H. Francis (Citizens) has had ei"ht years’ experience of the problems and methods of local body finance. He h.qs taken a prominent part in athletics and is standing as a representative of the younger .business people of Wellington. , , . Mrs. L. Gibson (Labour) was born tn Birmingham, the daughter of an early pioneer of the Labour movement. Keenly interested in problems affecting women and children aud the home, Airs. Gibson gave evidence before the AleAlillan Committee. She is vice-president of the women’s branch of the Labour Party and was secretary fur three years. She has had a long association with the Labour Party and trade unions. Airs. E. M. Gilmer (Citizens ■ is, a daughter of t()e late Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon. She was born at Kumara, West Coast, and’ was educated there and at Wellington, where she has been a resident for over 40 years. She is actively associated with 30 or more societies, is president of the Social Club for the Blind, Wellington Crippled Children's Society, and Wellington Horticultural Society, Symphony Orchestra, and a member of thy -Wellington College Board of Governors, League of Nations Union, Victoria League, English-Speaking Union, and other organisations. Air. B. A. Glen (Citizens) is a chartered accountant of Scotland and a fellow of the New Zealand Society of Accountants. Outside his professional life he has associated himself with many of Wellington’s public and semi-public institutions, ami is a fellow of the Royal Empire Society. He was born in Scotland and educated at the High School, .Glasgow, and Glasgow University. , During the war he was on active service with the Royal Air Force. Mr. J. Glover (Labour) is chairman of the retiring hospital board, of which lie has been ti member for 13 years. I [is work in the industrial and social nwveinent goes back very many years, and as manager and secretary of the New Zealand Worker Company he hits had consitl- | erable business experience, lie is a mem- ' her of the Free Ambulance committee, the Brooklyn School Committee, .and other’ bodies for the promotion of social welfare. Air. R. Holland (Labour) is chairman of the general purposes committee of tin- , hospital board. He is a son ol the late Air. 11. E. Holland. He has held several responsible positions on leading publications. and is now advertising manager ot the "Standard.” He is vice-president ot the Brooklyn branch of the Labour Party and has served as an executve member of the Wellington Labour Representation Committee and as delegate on several occasions Io the annual party conference. Aliss Amy Kano (Citizens) has already served for’five years On the hospital board. She is on the committee of the Wellington branches of the- Red Cross Society, the Plunket Society, and the Registered Nurses’ Association (lay member) and has served on the women's employment committee and the women’s advisory committee of the Wellington Technical College. She has been president of the Pioneer Club for 10 years, and has just been elected president, of the Federated Women’s Clubs of New Zealand. She is also ehairinau of the British Drama League (New Zealand branch) and of the women’s committee of the Wellington

Travel Club. Miss Kane is a member and deputv-ehairman of the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Women’s Institute and a member of the executive of the New Zealand Women’s Pan-Pacific Association.

Air. W. <). Alason. J. l’. (Citizens), is well known as a leader of Wellington community singing. He is also a public accountant amt company secretary, being a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries I London ) and a fellow ol the New Zealand Society of Public Accountants. He has been chairman of the finance and administration committee ot the Wellington Y.M.C.A. for the past Iyears and is the acting-president ot tlJ.it organisation. Mr. Alason is a past-presi-dent of the Wellington Competitions Society, is a member of that society’s council and is chairman of tiie euteftainimmt section of the Wellington Show Association.

Air. E. B. Newton i Labour) is secretary of the Clothing Trade Employees Union, which lie organisc<l in .193 L Ho is also-secret ary of the Island Buy branch of tiie Labour Party. Mr. Newton was born in Christchurch in 1893 ami was educated al tiie Wairarapa District High School. He served for four years during the Great War with the New Zealand Rifle Brigade.

Mr. G. Petherick. J.P. (Independent), a New Zealander by birth, has lived in Wellington practically all bis life. He has been a member of the hospital board for 25 years and chairman of. its social committee fur 20 years. He has been, a trustee fur the Home for Aged Needy 2b years, chairman of the trust for 18 yeare, u member of the Wellington Licensing Committee for over 30 years:, and lias served the public as member and chairman of school committees and in unofficial social welfare work. Air. C. R. C. Robieson, J.P. (Citizens) was formerly a civil servant. Director of the Tourist Department and Director of Industries and Commerce, and later general manager of the State Fire Insurance Office, a position he held for 12 yccirt?. promoted mid iii'inuged the H.I.M.U. and N.I.M.U. Mutual Insurance Companies. He is a past president of the Public Service Association and the Workers’ Education Association. Air. J. D. Sievwright (Citizens) is a retired journalist, having served on several newspapers, including the "New Zealand Times,” and having edited and managed the “Northern Advocate.” He has interested himself in several private companies in Wellington and tor 12 years was a director of the United Building Society. He has also taken a keen interest in sport.

Mrs. S. E. 0. Snow (Labour) has been a member of the Wellington Hospital Board for the past nine years. She was a member of the Wellington Terrace School Committee for eight, years and was its representative on the School Committees’ Federation and a member ot the Dominion federation executive for two years. Mrs. Snow was a foundation member of the Labour Party, has been a delegate to the Wellington Labour Representation Committee for 22 years and was for a period a member of the national executive of the Labour Party. She is a member of the women and girls employment committee, representing the Wellington Hospital Board. . Mr. M. W. Thew (Citizens) has lived over 50 years in Wellington and has long been associated with local and general polities. He is an original member or the ratepayers’ association and has been chairman of the Brooklyn School Committee for some time. He is a member ot the Justices’ Association executive council. He has retired from business. The Rev. I l '. J. Usher (Citizens), a Presbyterian minister during the past 2a yeiirs, has held charge of Upper Hutt, St. Andrew’s, South Canterbury, Dargaville, Henderson and Picton. In each case he was in close touch with hospitals and patients. He has for four years been official chaplain of the public hospital and is familiar with its institutions. He is one of the executive of the Wellington branch of the League of Nations Union and president of the Dorset Society. Air. G. Ward (Labour) has lived in Wellington for 36 years. lie was president of the Wellington Labour Representation Committee in 1919, vice-president 1937-38, and was re-elected this year. He was one of the founders of the M orkers Educational Association in 1916. He was president of the Kilbirnie branch of the Labour Party in 1936-37 and is now vicepresident.

Ml*. F. A. Waterhouse (Citizens) has for the past ten years been engaged in commercial pursuits in New Zealand. He is the managing director of New Zealand Platers (1937), Ltd., and the manager of Consumers’ Co-operative, Ltd. He has knowledge of equipment used it} hospitals; has been interested in health for a considerable time, and has studied the psychological aspect.

Mrs. Margaret Young (Independent) stood for Parliament 10 years ago as an Independent. She has taken a large part in private charities, and is well known as a staunch street-day collector for the St. Vincent de Paul Society and for other charities. She has been a frequent visitor to the hospital. Dr. Austin, Mrs. M. Semple, and Messrs. J. Tucker and M. Walsh are hospital board as well as city council candidates. See city council list. Harbour Board Mr. Andrew Fletcher (Citizens), principal of the Fletcher Construction Company, served for eight years as the Government representative on the Wellington Harbour Board. He has been a member of the chamber of commerce and in 1928 was chairman. Captain S. Holm (Citizens) was born in Wellington, and, following a seafaring life, he obtained an extra master’s certificate, and for 15 years was in command of sailing vessels and steamers. He is at present managing director of Holm and Co., Ltd., shipowners and agents. He is president of the Wellington Beautifying Society and vice-president of the chamber of commerce. He has served on the Wanganui Harbour Board and the Wellington City Council.

Sir Charles Norwood (Citizens) lias served the city and port in many wavs for 25 years. He was first elected to the city council in 1917 and later became mayor. Sir Charles was largely instrumental in introducing the city milk supply system and was personally responsible for the founding of the I 1 ree Ambulance Service. He is a director ot many companies. He was a member ot the harbour board for 17 years. He has been chairman of the Wellington 1' ire Board, the town-planning board, ami president of the Wellington Chamber ot Commerce. Other bodies with which he has been prominently associated are the Wellington Show Association ami the Wellington Manufacturers’ Association. Mr. J. Roberts (Labour) has been directly associated with the Labour movement for many years. He was appointed secretary of the New Zealand 'Waterside Workers’ Federation in 1915, and secretary of the Alliance of Labour in 1920. He led the Labour section at the National Industrial Conference in 1928, and was the first Labour delegate from New Zealand to the International Labour Conference at Geneva, in 1930. He was vicepresident of the New Zealand Labour Party for three years before his election to the presidency last year and again for the current year. For Messrs. Appleton, Brindle, Chapman and McKeen see city council list.

HUTT ELECTIONS

Who’s Who On Citizens’ Ticket RECORDS OF SERVICE Following are biographical details of candidates put forward by the citizens ejection committee for to-morrow’s municipal elections in Lower Hutt. For the Lower Hutt Borough Council nine are required, for the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board, two from Lower Hutt, for the Wellington Hospital Board, two from Lower Hutt and Eastbourne, for the Petbne and Lower Hutt Gas Lighting Board, three from Lower Hutt, for the Hutt River Board, five, and for the Wellington Harbour Board, two from Lower Hutt combined with certain other districts. Borough Council ' Mr. C. J. Ashton has served five years as a councillor of Lower Hutt borough, during which time he has been chairman of the works committee, has served on the Hutt Park committee and several other committees set up for the working of the borough. He has been a resident of the borough for 16 years, and is a retired contractor and. company director. He is a vice president of the Hutt Rugoy Football Club and was for some time chairman of the benevolent committee ct the Returned Soldiers’ Association. . Mr. E. P. Hay has been in practice for 20 years in Wellington as a barrister and solicitor, recently with the firm of Mazengarb, Hay. and Macalister. He was 17 years solicitor on the staff of the Public Trust Office. He has been president ot die Wellington District Law Society, and is at present a member of the council of that body and a member of the manage-. ment committee of the Solicitors’ Fidelity Guarantee Fund. He is a member of the committee of the Hutt Bowling Club, vice-president of the Hutt Swimming Club, and member of the executive of the Automobile Association (Wellington). Mr. \V. C. Gregory is a land and estate agent at Lower Hutt. He holds a Government appointment as a member of the Hutt Urban Adjustment Commission, is the vice-president of the local chamber ot commerce, and has been a resident in the Hutt Valley for 13 years. He was tor some years farming in the North Wairarapa district. Mr. Gregory is a vicepresident of the Hutt Rugby Football Club and is a keen supporter of athletias and golfing. He was born in Ireland and served with the Imperial forces during the Great War. ■ Mr. J. E. F. Vogel was born m England in 1907 and is the son of the late Mr. 11. B. Vogel, member of the Wellington City Council, and Mrs, E. J. G. Vogel, daughter of the late Mr. W. 11. Levin. He is a grandson of Sir Julius Vogel and a <>reat-grandson of James Edward FitzGerald, New Zealand’s first Premier. He was educated at Charterhouse School. Mr Vo-rnl came to New Zealand in 1926 and joined the staff of Levin and Co., Ltd., and is now engaged in business on his own account as an indent' Since he has been in New Zealand, Mr. \ogel has been a keen player of squash racquets and in 1935 was runner-up in the New Zealand championships. He is a reserve officer in’the Wellington Regiment and is Scout Commissioner for the Hutt 1 al-

Slr.'C. G. Hedge has been for 29 years in the Railways Department and occupies the position of first assistant on the scheduling and planning staff of the Hutt workshops. For the past 13 years he has been a resident and ratepayer of the Lower Hutt borough. He was for three venrs on active service in the Great Ivar, rising to the rank of captain. .Mr. Hedge for the last three years has been a member of St. James’s vestry. For two years lie has been a member of the board ot directors of the Hutt Valley Y.M.C.A. and for two rears honorary secretary of the District High School Parents’ Association. of which be is vice-president. Mr. A. Marshall, who recently retired from the Public Service, was director of accounts in the Post and Telegraph Department. He is a member of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, having qualified by examination. For three years he was a member of the executive of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, and for one year was chairman of the branch. He is a member of the Wellington Rotary Club. Mr. Marshall is president of the Hutt Valley Table Tennis Association and chairman of the executive of the New Zealand Table Tennis Association. He is patron of the Waterloo Badminton Club and a member of the committee of the Hutt Bowling Club. Mr. J. Mitchell has seniority of service on the borough council. It is 16 years since he was first elected and for several years he has been deputy-mayor, lie is chairman of the reserves committee. His record as a member of the Hut t River Board is equally long. He is (•hairman of that body and will again stand. Mr. Mitchell can claim a deal o! the credit for the .improvements at the Taita'cemetery. He has been tin active member of the board_controlling it for many years and for 15 years was chairman. During the depression Mr. Mitchell acted as chairman of the unemployment committee. Although be _ relinquished many of his active business interests several years ago, he is still chairman of directors of Laery and Co., Ltd., and is also chairman of the Wellington Fruit Exchange. Mr. R. D. Smith. A.R.A.N.Z., who is aged 37, was educated in Petone. Tie Ims been a resident of Lower Hutt for 26 years except for four years in Iteaihersljpn as company secretary and public accountant. He is a member ot the New Zealand .Society of Accountants, commissioner of Waterloo School, life member Hutt Valley Lawn Tennis Sub-associa-tion, past-treasurer and member of management committee Hutt Rugby Football Club, past-treasurer of the Lower Hutt Miiuieioal Silver Band, past-secretary and treasurer Trinity Congregational Church, and past member of the Waiwetu School committee. Mr. Smith was secretary of the sports queen committee when rhe queen carnival and Easter gala in 1923 raised £l2OO for Hutt recreation ground improvements. Mr. R. M. Russell is a sitting councillor. being a member of the works committee. He is it member of the Petone and Lower Hutt Gas Lighting Board also, and offers himself for re-election on both bodies. He is a past-president of the Lower Hutt Chamber of Commerce. During the Great War Mr. Russell served in the New Zealand Tunnelling Company. He is a life member of the Lyall Bay .Surf and Life-saving Club, and a past-presi-dent of the A.O.F. Hjispital Association.

Mr. Russell is a local preacher m the Hutt Methodist Church. He is in business on his own account. River Board .Mr. W. It. M. Pearce, who represents Epuni riding on the Hutt County Court-* cil, is recontesting his seat on that body, and is also seeking election, to the Hutt River Board. He was born in Lower Hutt and has lived all his life there, being a ratepayer, in both the borough ot Lower Hutt and Hutt County. He is an ardent supporter of sport in all its branches. . ’ Dr B. J. Dudley, medical practitioner, of Lower Hutt, is a sitting member of the river board, and has been a ratepayer and resident of the borough for over 20 years. He is a keen supporter of all forms of outdoor sport in the district. Mr. J. Mitchell.— See borough council. Gas Lighting Board Mr. I*. N. Player has been a resident and ratepayer for eight, years, and during this period has been the proprietor of a retail business in High Street. lie was for many years a member of the Napier School committee, is a member of the executive of the Hutt Bo.wling Clulu and was the first chairman of the Hutt Valley Industrial Exhibition, and has been president'of the Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce. Hospital Board Mr. W. G. Fargie has been a resident and ratepayer in Lower Hutt tor 10 years. Proprietor of a land and estate agency. Mr. Fargie is a returned soldier. Has had wide commercial experience, including banking experience in Singapore. Mr. Fargie is keenly interested in the provision of an adequate hospital service for the Hutt Valley and the careful examination of the hospital question generally- , , Dr. B. Welton-Hogg, M.C., was educated at Carlton College, Scots College and Melbourne University, and graduated M. 8.. 8.5., in 1915. He was awarded the Cross in 1916 for gallantry and devotion to duty and awarded a bar to the Military Cross in 1918. After two years’ post-graduate study in various hospitals he entered private practice. In 1927-28 he spent IS months travelling and studying hospital conditions, also chemical work, in China, South Africa ami Europe, including four months’ postgraduate work in Vienna. lie hag been resident in New Zealand since 1929, practising at Lower Hutt and Wellington. Dr. Weltou-llogg is a major in the New Zealand _ Territorial Forces. I Harbour Board Mr. G. London lias been a member of the Petone Borough Council for the past live years and was top of the poll at the last election. lie is chairman of the council’s reserve committee, chairman oi the library committee, member Hutt Valley Electric Power Board and member of the Taita Cemetery Board. He is prominently connected with various sports bodies and is a Citizens’ candidate for the sPet.one mayoralty. Power Board Mr. G. L. Giescn has been resident in i the Hutt Valley since 1924. He is engaged in business on his own account, as a company manager and before residing in the Hutt was for several yearn bon. secretary of the To Kuiti, Chamber ot Commerce and the Te Kuiti School, Com- ; mittee. For several years Mr. Giesen acted as secretary of the Hutt V alley I High School Parents’ Association. Mr. C. E. J. Dowlanil, who also oilers j his services as one ol the two representatives ou the Hutt Valley Electric Power Board, was born in Dunedin and educated at Macandrew Road School and Otago Bovs’ High School, lie recently retired from the Civil Service after 40 years, lor the latter five years as Commissioner of Taxes. In sport Mr. Dowland has been chiefly interested in rowing and Rugby football. lie was a member of the original board of governors of the Wellington Y.M.C.A. Until recently he was chairman of the Hutt Valley High School board of governors and is at present a member.

Mr. K. W. Jiotliamley is again offering his- services ns a member for the Hutt Vnlley Power Board mid tlie Mnlinra County Council (Poririia-Titahi Bay riding). Mr. Botlmniloy lias hud eonsider:ible experience on both bodies, and lias been a member of the Hutt Valley ICI'-e--tri- Power Board for the past six years.

Mr. Junies Purchase, a successlul dairy-farmer, of ,M:ikar:i. is again offering his services ns n representative on the Makara County Council for the Makara riding. Mr. Ibin-ljase Ims had seven years’ service on the council.

Mr. J. B. Yaldwyn, who is contesting the Wainui-o-mnta riding representation in the Hutt County Council, has been a ratepayer for the last fen years He is a Wellington solicitor.

Mr. S. G. Luxton, wlio is a returned soldier, has represented the Makara riding on the Makara County Council for tlie past three years, and is again offering his services.