EASTERN MAORI SEAT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 59, 7 September 1938, Page 5

EASTERN MAORI SEAT

LABOUR CANDIDATE

LIST NOW COMPLETE

The national executive of the New Zealand Labour Party announces that Mr. R. T. Kohere, Te Araroa, has been selected to contest the Eastern Maori seat. Mr. Kohere is one of the leading members of the Ngati-Poru tribe, which inhabits the East Coast, and is descended from a long line of fighting chiefs. The last of the line was Lieut. H. Kohere, who fell at the battle of the Somme during' the Great War. Mr. Kohere's grandfather was the son "of the Hon. Mokena Kohere, the first Maori to be elected to the Legislative Council. Mr. Kohere was educated at the Gisborne Central School, Te Aute College, and Canterbury University College. For several years he was assistant tutor at the Te Rau Theological College, Gisborne. After his ordination he took charge of the Te Aroha parochial district, and on the departure of his brothers to the front he resigned and took up farming on the East Coast, where he is still living. Mr. Kohere was one of the founders of the Young Maori Party, to organise which he accompanied the late Sir Maui Pomare on a tour of the Hawke's Bay district. The selection of Mr. Kohere completes the Labour Party's list of candidates for the 'General Election. .

The Minister of Public Works and Transport (the Hon. R. Semple) will address a public meeting at the Kilbirnie Kinema tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Besides his film on methods of construction on public works, the Minister will show a graphic picturisatlon of the recent Hawke's Bay floods. This meeting commemorates Mr. Semple's tenth year as member of Parliament for Wellington East. Mr. R. McKeen, M.P., a resident of the district, will take the chair. Doors will open at 7 p.m.