ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS

Evening Star, Issue 23565, 2 May 1940, Page 8

ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS

EXCEPT NATIONALISTS SIX NOMINATIONS FOR MR SAVAGE'S SEAT [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 1. The bv-election for the vacant Aucklan West seat will be contested by six candidates. The nominations closed to-dav with the returning officer, and the election, which has made necessary by the death of Mr Savage, will take place on May 18. Three of tho candidates have political party affiliations, and tho remaining three are seeking election as independents. There was no nominee for the National Party, and it was stated officially that after full consideration of the various factors involved it had been decided that the party would not contest the by-election. The list of candidates is as follows: Peter Carr (Labour), tramway motorman, of Herne Bay. Wilfred Henry Fortune (Independent), company manager, of Ponsonby. Joseph Bond Kennedy (Liberal), farmer, of Mangonui, North Auckland. Enoch Naden (Independent), barman, Ponsonby. Lawrence Pickles (Independent Socialist), company director, of Epsom. Clement Gordon Watson (Communist), journalist, of Grafton road. The writ issued for tho by-election prescribed that nonlinations were to close at noon, and when two additional papers were presented after this hour they had to be refused by the returning officer. One intending candidate arrived at the office with his papers apparently completed 10 minutes after midday, and tho other, who indicated that he had come from the country and did not know that nominations closed at noon, presented himself at 1.30 p m. Two of the six candidates, Mr Fortune and Mr Kennedy, announced themselves only to-day. Mr Fortune, who is 43 years of age, was born in Paeroa and educated at Auckland, where he studied at tho Auckland University College and the Auckland Training College before entering the teaching profession. He taught at a number of schools in the Auckland province before accepting a position as accountant with a city firm in 1926. .Ho shortly afterwards became secretary, and for tho past eight years has been manager. He is a member of the Auckland Education Board, and has been prominently associated with school committees’ organisations for many years.