GENERAL ELECTION

Evening Star, Issue 19931, 30 July 1928, Page 5

GENERAL ELECTION

MR TAVERNER IS A CANDIDATE

AT REQUEST OF MR SIDEY'S COMMITTEE

Since this paper went to press on Saturday there has been a definite do* ciaration as to the Dunedin South, election. The committee that has m the past stood at the back of Mr 1. K. Si dev resolved to ask Mr W. B. Jaycrnor, one of Mr Sideys firm political associates, to stand for the .seat that Mr Sidey is vacating, and Mr Taverner has consented to do so. A meeting oi friends and supporters is to bo called without delay to set up sectional committees and organise generally. Mr Taverner wius burn at Cavcrsham iu 1879. This is the first time ho has stood for Parliament. He is Mayor of Dunedin, president of the southern division of tho United Party’s South Island organisation, 'and a member of the Dominion Executive for the Dunedin district.

MR CHARLES TODD SAYS " YES ”

Rif FORM CANDIDATE FOR DUNEDIN SOUTH.

To the deputation of Dunedin South electors that waited upon him on Friday afternoon Dir Charles Todd promised that ho would give a straight answer at 11.30 this morning to the request that he consent to bo nominated for tho Dunedin South scat in the Reform interest.

Sharp to time to-day Mr Todd made his reply to the members of the deputation appointed to receive it. Ho said that ho had given much thought to the request that he should offer himself as a candidate for this important seat in tho Reform interest. He immediately communicated, where possible in the time available, with those of his Central Otago friends_ who had induced him to offer himself for Wakatipu, and in every instance their advice was to make his own choice. Their principal concern seemed to he that ho should bo in Parliament to , advance Otago’s interests. The fact of- Mr James Ritchie also standing for Wakatipu would split the Reform vote, with the almost certain result that neither of them would win. Taking all considerations into review, ho had therefore decided to accede to tho deputation’s kindly and forceful reasons that ho should oiler himscll for Dunedin South in the Reform interest. His decision was fortified and strengthened by the fact that tho deputation was so strong and representative, also by the fact that since meeting the deputation he had received many oilers of assistance and expressions of goodwill. He was ia a position to devote practically all his time to politics, and if elected would do his utmost to promote the best interests of New Zealand, Dunedin South and Otago being his special care, lie would apply the experience gained in his long and varied business career, together with the knowledge gained by travel, in every way for the general well-being of our country. The electors could depend upon him putting his best thought and work into the contest and making a strenuous but clean fight to the finish, and lie felt confident that united endeavours in their mutual interests would win tbo day.