THE GENERAL ELECTION.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2125, 17 May 1922, Page 5

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

LABOUR CANDIDATES. (Per Preas Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. Nominations of Labour candidates to contest the Wellington seats will not close until the end of June, when the Labour Representation Committee will hold a selection ballot. Up to the present, the following have been mentioned; —Wellington East, Mr A. E. Monteith, secretary of the Tramwaymen's Union; Wellington South: Messrs H. Dyson (secretary of the Storemen's Union), A. M. Keen (secretary of the Grocers' Union), and J. McKenzie (assistant secretary of Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union); Wellington Suburbs, Mr A. W. Croskery (secretary of the Amalgamated Shop Assistants' Society); Wellington North, Mr C. H. Chapman (secretary of the Typographical Union) , and Mr Snow; Wellington Central, Mr P. Fraser. It is understood that Mr H. E. Coombs, secretary of the Post and Telegraph Officers' Association, will be nominated in the Labour interest for Wellington North, and that Mr M. J. Mack, secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, and President of the. Alliance of Labour, may be nominated for Wellington East. Mr C. H. Pritchard will again contest the Hutt seat for Labour. LIBERAL CANDIDATES SELECTEE! NAPIER, Last Night. As the result of the visit of Mr T\ M. Wilford, M.P., Leader of the United Liberal-Labour Party, to Hawke's Bay, .Messrs Gilbert McKay and A. E. Jull, Liberal candidates at last election for the Hawke's Bay and Waipawa seats respectively, have been chosen to stand in the Party's interests at the next election. Mr Jull has asked time to consider the matter. At a meeting of the Party's supporters at Hastings to-night, a resolution of condolence was passed with the widow and family of the late Mr E. Kellett, M.P. Mr Wilford returns to Wellington to-morrow.