Promises Impartial Bay Representation

Northern Advocate, 27 September 1943, Page 4 (Supplement)

Promises Impartial Bay Representation

Mr. S. w 7 Smith, successful candidate for Bay of Islands, was received enthusiastically at the patriotic dance, sponsored by the local Fire Brigade in Kaikohe on Saturday. He was introduced by the chairman of the Kaikohe Town Board (Mr G. S. (Penney). “I am your member for the next three years and I will do what I can for the electorate, outside altogether of party politics,” Mr. Smith said. The results, he commented, showed that the good policy of the National Party had appealed to the good sense of the electors. This, together, with good organisation by his friends and supporters, brought about the result. Mr. Smith again stressed the fact that he was representative of the whole district, and of all sections, not merely those who were friends of the Nationalist Party.

He paid a tribute to his political opponents 'who had put up a clean fight.

While he had made no promises so far in the election campaign, Mr. Smith took opportunity to make one on this occasion: to fairly and impar-

tially represent every part and section of the electorate and attend to its needs as he saw them.

Reference was made to the great assistance given by Mrs. Smith during the course of the political campaign.

Victory Celebrated

To celebrate the victory, friends and supporters of Mr. Smith held a supper partv in the Delta tearooms at Kaikohe on Saturdav night.

The chairman of v the Bay of Islands National Partv organising committee (Mr. H. F. Guy) said that since the time of Mr. A.llan Bell the Bay of Islands felt itself out in the wi’derness until now, when Mr. Smith was able to bring home victory. "We of the executive kept in close touch with the candidate during the whole of his campaicn and were most pleased with every report we received of Mr. Smith,” Mr. Guy said. As a trained farmer and a businessman of considerable experience, Mr. Smith would serve the district well.

It was good that Mr. Smith's victory had

been achieved with such a clear-cut majority. It was a mandate for the party and the man. Mr. Smith had now been invested with a responsibility, not to his party but to all electors of Bay of Islands. The interests of all sections must be served.

Mr. Guy felt that the country had been ruled too long by class representation. He was confident that the impartial policy the Nationalists would so win the confidence of the people as to receive endorsement in three years’ time.

A toast to the successful candidate wss honoured enthusiastically.

Mr. Guy also referred to the splendid election fight put up by Mr. Eru Pou in. the National interests of Northern Maori. He had fought and lost decently and was in no way to blame for the final result. An endorsement of the sentiments expressed by Mr. Guy was given by the chairman of the Kaikohe Town Board (Mr. G. S. Penney). Congratulations to Mr. Smith were expressed by Mr. Eru Pou. “I look to you as a representative not only of the pakeha but of the Maori people,” Mr. Pou said. “As Sid Smith I could have done nothing—but Sid Smith, plus your organisation, was able to do much,” Mr. Smith said. He commented eulogistically on the work of the committees, and especially on the services of the organisation’s chairman (Mr. Guy) and secretary (Mr. J. E Hutchinson). “I know my responsibility—that I am a representative of all the people and not of the National Party alone,” Mr. Smith concluded. He felt he had a duty to the Maori race as he had to the pakeha electors.

Before the supper party dispersed, Mr. Guy thanked all committees and urged that they preserve a little of their enthusiasm during the next three years in order to keep the machine functioning.

MR. CHARLES YOUNG Born in 1900 at Omaha, near Matakana, Mr. Charles Young, Democratic Soldier Labour Party candidate for Bay of Islands, is the son of Mr. James Young, a pioneer well-known in Warkworth farming circles. Mr Charles Young received his early education at the Takatu primary school, and completed it at the Normal High School, Auckland. For 12 years after leaving school Mr. Young assisted on his father’s farm. He then went in to the grocery business at Matakana where he remained for five years. Auckland attracted him then and there he engaged in the building business, in which he remained until the outbreak of the war. Volunteering the day war was declared, Mr. Young, served in the ranks until two years ago when he was promoted Lieutenant and given charge of a battery of coast artillery. In 1925 he married Miss E. Chitty, of Auckland. He has one daughter. From his earliest days Mr. Young has taken a keen interest in politics, and in 1935 was a member of the committee of the Labour Party in Auckland.

MR. C. W. BOSWELL. First elected to Parliament in 1938 as Labour member for Bay of Islands, Mr. C. W. Boswell has lost his seat.

Mr. Boswell was born at Coromandel and early entered the teaching profession from which he resigned while headmaster of the District High School at Kawakawa to enter politics in the 1933 campaign. Apart from his profession, Mr. Boswell interested himself in local affairs, being an executive member of the Kawakawa Chamber of Commerce. He also lectured widely on subjects of social and economic interest while he was a debater in Athenaeum Cup contests. He was a member of the national executive of the New Zealand Educational Institute from 1933 to 1938 and of the executive of the Labour Party since 1939.