LABOUR CANDIDATE
FOR BULLER SEAT. MR P. U. WEBB -SELECTED, (Prom Our Parliamentary Special.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Mr P. C. Webb has boon selected as the official Labour candidate for the Duller seat, vacant through the death of Mr H. E. Holland. Dir Webb was formerly member for Duller, then known as Grey. He was elected in 1913, and re-elected in the following year. He resigned in 1917, and was re-elected unopposed. He was then called, up for military service, but upon declining to wear military uniform he was sentenced to imprisonment, and the seat was declared vacant in May, 1918, He was succeeded by Mr Holland, who held the seat until his death, Mr Webb was a member of" Mr R, Semple's co-operative tunnelling party near Wellington from 1921 to 1924, and has since lived in Christchurch, whore he is manager of the local depot of the Point Elizabeth co-operative coal miners.
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Northern Advocate, 18 October 1933, Page 7
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