GENERAL ELECTION

Grey River Argus, 17 July 1943, Page 4

GENERAL ELECTION

P.A. ASHBURTON, July 16. Flying Officer David Barnes, R.N. Z.A.F., of Timaru, has been selected as the official Labour candidate tor Mid-Canterbury. Flying Officer Barnes was the member oi Parliament for Waitaki from 1935 to 1938. INVERCARGILL. July 16. Negotiations are in train for the official nomination by the Southland Branch of the New Zealand Liberal Partv of political candidates for Invercargill and Wallace Electorates Nothing definite has been decided, but as' a result of a meeting of the branch last night, the committee '^•' s empowered to get in touch with certain likely candidates for both clectorates wELLiNGTON> Ju]y 1( . A meeting of delegates selected Mr. N P Croft as National ..candidate tor Hutt’ Mr. Nash’s constituency. Mr. Croft, aged 37, is head of N. P, Croft and Company, cartage contractors,

Lower Hutt, a firm operating on a cooperative basis, the drivers sharing in the profits. As an amateur boxer. Croft won the Wellington provincial middle-weight and welter-weight titles in 1930, and also the Canterbury amateur middle-weight.