LYTTELTON BY-ELECTION

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 159, 21 June 1935, Page 6

LYTTELTON BY-ELECTION

Labour Chooses Mr McCombs By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, June 30. Following the Gazette announcement of the vacancy in the Lyttelton electorate caused by the death of Mrs McCombs, the national executive of the Labour Party to-day announced that, acting on the nomination and recommendation of its affiliations and supporters in the Lyttelton electorate, it had decided to nominate Mr Terence Henderson McCombs as a candidate to contest the Lyttelton by-election on behalf of the party. Mr T. H. McCombs is a son of the late Mr James McCombs, who was the member for Lyttelton for 18 years, and of the late Mrs E. 11. McCombs, who was the member for two years. He has had a brilliant scholastic career. Born in Christchurch in 1905 he was educated at the Christchurch Boys’ High School, the Waitaki Boys’ High School and Canterbury College. He won the Charles Cook Memorial Research Scholarship in 1928, graduated Master of Science with honours in chemistry in 1929, and won the National Research Scholarship in 1929-30. He held a number of teaching appointments, and for a fairly lengthy period has been making experiments in wheat culture. He has also taken a prominent part in sport, gaining university blues in hockey and rowing. In nominating Mr McCombs, the national executive of the Labour Party felt that not only would he be of particular value in the Dominion Parliament, but that belonging to a younger school of New Zealanders his knowledge and outlook would bo of outstanding interest at the present time.