NATIONAL PARTY

Evening Star, Issue 24004, 1 October 1941, Page 8

NATIONAL PARTY

DUNEDIN NORTH CANDIDATE MR L D. M'IVER SELECTED Mr Lewis Donald MTver head of the commercial department of the King Edward Technical College, and lecturer in auditing at the University of Otago, will contest the Dunedin North seat in the interests of the National Party if an election should he held, this year. The choice was made last night, when the Selection Committee for. the electorate held a hallot of nominees. It had .previously heen announced that Brigadier A. S. Falconer, who contested the seat in 1988, was again the National Party candidate, _ but • since then Brigadier Falconer withdrew his nomination. Mr M'lrer, who was born at Gore in 1896, was educated at the Oaversham Public School, the Otago Boys’ High School, and the Dunedin Technical Col-

'leg®, evening classes. Leaving school, "he served .'as a telegraph messenger at the Morninigton Post. Office, and was later transferred to the accountant’s ■branch, General Post Office, Wellington. Enlisting at the age of 18, Mr M‘lver served for two years with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War. He was a , non-commissioned officer attached to the Ist Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment. On returning to New Zealand, he qualified as a public accountant, graduating at the University of Otago with the degree of Bachelor of Commerce. ■ For some years he practised as a public accountant in Dunedin.

In 1927, Mr M Tver was appointed to the staff of the King Edward Technical College, where, as head of the commercial department, thousands of pupils have passed through his hands. For the past , nine years he has been lecturer in auditing at. the University of Otago. He has taken much interest in the progress of technical and commercial education, and was’the organiser of a highly successful Dominion conference of commercial teachers, held in Dunedin in 1939. He is chairman of the Otago branch of the Technical .School- Teachers’ .Association, and vice-president of the Dominion Executive of that body. As immediate pastpresident of the Technical'College Exstudents’ Association; and a former secretary of the College Parents’ Auxiliary, he has taken a leading part in the development of these bodies. He was prominent in the formation of the Otago branch of the New Zealand Institute of Secretaries, ■of which branch he is a former chairman. In sport, Mr M’lvor has been interested in hockey, football, and lawn tennis, and is a vice-president of the Technical Old Boys’ Football Club,