MAORI SEATS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 127, 25 November 1935, Page 12

MAORI SEATS

ELECTION TOMORROW

MANY CANDIDATES

The General Election, to be held on Wednesday, will be preceded tomorrow by the election of four Maori members, representing Southern Maori (comprising the whole of the South Island), Western Maori, Eastern Maori, and Northern Maori. The candidates are as follows (the name of the representative in the last Parliament being marked with an asterisk):— Southern Maori. 4E. T. Tirlkatene (Ratana). E. T. W. Rio-Love (Nationalist). -T. K. Bragg (Independent). T. Makitanara (Democrat). Western Maori. H. T. Ratana (Ratana). H. te M. Howera (Independent). J. A. Asher (Democrat). T. Patena (Unofficial Labour). *T. te Tomo (Nationalist). Eastern Maori. *Sir Apirana Ngata (Nationalist) • R. T: Kohere (Independent). ■ T. Ormond (Independent). Northern Maori. D. W. Taylor (Independent). H. "W. Witehira (Independent). 1.. W. Parore (Democrat). ! M. Otene (Independent;. j P. K. Paikea (Ratana). ! R. Maihi (Independent). ! "T. Henare (Nationalist). Polling will commence at 'J a.m. nnd will close at 4 p.m. The Chief Elec-

toral Officer (Mr. G. G. .Hodgkins) expects tjhat the first results will be to hand albout five o'clock, and that the finals ift. all electorates will be known betweeri 8 and 9 o'clock.

Arrangements have been made by "The Post" to have results posted on the front office window as they come to hand. •