SURPRISE NOMINATION.
LADY CANDIDATE FOR WELLINGTON CENTRAL. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Oct. 29. A last-minute surprise was sprung when the nominations for Wellington Central seat closed at noon to-day when the disclosure was made that a third candidate had been nominated. Up till this morning there had been no indication that a third candidate was to disturb the straight-out contest between Messrs Fraser (Labour) and Dunbar Sloane (Reform). The third nominee is Mrs Margaret Young. She declares herself an Independent Labour candidate. Mrs Young is the wife of Mr W. T. Young, formerly general secretary of the New Zealand Seamen’s Union. At Mr Fraser’s meeting to-night, Mr Young said that he did not know of his wife’s nomination until ho saw it in to-night’s paper and declared his own. loyalty to the official Labour candidate. He urged the electors to vote for Mr Fraser. The candidate’ in his speech, said he was “considerably interested” when he heard of ' Mrs Young’s nomination. Everyone had a right to be nominated and all the more, the merrier.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 285, 30 October 1928, Page 7
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