THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE
CAREER OF MR R. W. JOHNS . FARMING AND COMMERCIAL EXPERIENCE Mr R. W. Johns, the selected,Democrat candidate for Marsden, was born in 1880, at Mangere, his father being a well-known farmer, first in the Mangere district and later at Pukekohe. As a young man, Mr Johns worked on his father’s farm, and on attaining the age of 21, enlisted for service in the Boer War, reaching the rank of quartermaster-sergeant. ’ He returned to New Zealand in 1902, and engaged in farming in the Pukekohe district until 1912. He then moved to Auckland, where he" took up an appointment With the International Harvester Company, later; becoming manager of the machinery and produce departments of the Farmers’ Trading Company. This period in the city' gave ’ Mr Johns a keen insight into the commercial world, arid a valuable groundwork for his future farming operations. , Inspired by the advice of the late Bt. Hon. W. F. Massey, Mr Johns came North, and in 1919 settled on an unimproved property at Mata. Nothwithstanding the difficult period through which, dairy farmers have passed in the intervening period, Mr Johns has been successful in consolidating his position, and has found time take a useful place in many district activities; His record of public service is;—Director of the Waipu Dairy Company for eight years; J.P. for 15 years; past vicepresident of the Franklin Sub-Provin-cial Farmers’ Union; past president of two branches of the Farmers’ Union, four years; past secretary of a Farmers’ Union branch; Fifteen years as an officer with the volunteer and territorial forces; member of the Returned- Soldiers’ Association.
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Northern Advocate, 23 October 1935, Page 10
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