DUNEDIN SOUTH SEAT

Evening Star, Issue 19924, 21 July 1928, Page 1

DUNEDIN SOUTH SEAT

MR H. E. HOLLAND, M.P., MENTIONED UNQUALIFIED DENIAL GIVEN Reports that Mr If. E. Holland, M.P., leader of the Labour Party, in being considered as a candidate for tbs Dunedin South seat, which Mr T. K. Sidey, M.P., will not contest at the forthcoming elections, are given an unqualified denial by Labour Party leaders in Dunedin. The suggestion has been freely broadcast that Mr Holland should contest the city scat, tho report being made that the electors of the Duller district were holding him to an alleged promise made some years ago. "‘There is nothing whatever in the reports, and you can give them a strenuous denial,” said one of the leading Labour men in Dunedin when the reports were referred to him this morning. Another Labour man said that this was the first ho had heard of any suggestion that Mr Holland should stand for tho Dunedin South seat. However, a suggestion had been made about eighteen months ago that Mr Holland should, in virtue of his being leader of the party, stand for the Wellington Centra! seat. The constituents of the Duller electorate/ however, did not desire any change. Moreover, the nominations for the seats had already closed, and Mr Holland's name was not among them.