MAORI BY-ELECTION

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 16, 19 July 1932, Page 8

MAORI BY-ELECTION

ANOTHER CANDIDATE

(By/ Telegraph.-^-Pfess AssocUitioii.)

;"■"■ : INyEECARQILLj 18th July. Mr.' Thomas Bragg/, of Half-,Moon Bay, Stewart Island, has .agreed to contest the Southern Maori seat as an Independent Reform ca'nclidato at the by-election on 3rd .August.. "■'''., (

Mr. Bragg is; chairman 'of tho Stewart Island County Council aid'of He Half Moon Bay Harbour Board ;and also a member of the Ngaitahu, Trust Board. ; .

Joseph Beaton, of Pahia, will contest the Southern Maori seat as an Independent Coalitionist at the'ioque'st of the Colac 'and \?akapatu' Natives '

cuns against him, it is probable that the^ preference will.. U : for, Brown, and Robins. • Still another Vbowler :.Viio should, find a place in the touring side is Verity A big-surpriae in the seleotion^of the trial teams is the inclusion of Parnes, of Essex and -Cambridge University. He is a fast bowler, but •loes not appear to be quite ready yet for the big undertaking for which he is, on trial. Staples is a -good allrounder, though he has not been discussed to : any extent; aa a possibility Cor Australia and New Zealand; On the strength of the selection of >;he i teams for the final trial tho indications are that England's: touring team will- be:—Jardine (captain): wyatt (vice-captain), Sutcliffe, Hammond, Duleepsinhji, "WrooHoy, Paynter or Leyland, the Nawab' of Pataudi or Tyldosley,: Amos," Alien, Larwood, Eobins, Brown, Verity, Voce. and. Duckworth.