Our New Member : Which?

Northland Age, Volume 8, Issue 2, 12 October 1938, Page 1

Our New Member : Which?

Mr. H. F. Guy was born in Auckland on March 21, 1883. His education, primary, started at Wellesley Street, Auckland, and was continued at Te Aro, Wellington, and the Middle School, Invercargill. He completed his education by attending the Southland High School, the Otago Boys’ High School and the Otago University. Mr. Guy started legal work with Messrs. Moore, Moore and Nicol, solicitors, Dunedin, and, in 1915, he took over management of the Kaikohe branch of Messrs. Parr and Blomfield, solicitors.

The selected candidate started in business on his own account in Kaikohe as solicitor in 1919. He has practised there ever since.

He has been chairman of the Kaikohe Co-operative Dairy Co. since its inception nine years ago, and chairman of the Kaikohe District High School for the past 14 years. He is a life member of the Kaikohe Tennis Club, and one of the founders of the Kaikohe Golf Club.

Apart from practising as a solicitor, Mr. Guy has run a mixed farm near Kaikohe for the past 24 years.

Mr. Justice Callan on the Motor Vehicles Act in the Court of Appeal. ☆ ☆ ☆ “The suggestions of confiscation are simply silly. Everything that this Government has done nas been in the direction of making the farmer’s tenure of the land more secure.”—Hon. W. Nash, M.P. (L.) at Pahiatua. ☆ ☆ ☆ “The National party say they are going to reduce costs; but every cost is somebody’s income. I wonder whose income they would reduce first.”—Hon. D. G. Sullivan, M.P. (L.), Avon. * ☆ ☆ “I am prepared to admit that the Labour party has good intentions, but that will not get the country out of trouble. I am not against Labour but against Socialism.”—Mr. Gladstone Ward (Op.), Christchurch South ☆ ☆ ☆ “One description I have heard o v Mr. Hamilton’s manifesto is a little vulgar, but listen to it. It is a whitebait manifesto—it has neither head nor gut nor spine.”—Mr. C. R. Petrie (L.), Hauraki. ☆ ☆ ☆ “The Government did not intend to take away the farmer’s land and that was proved by the way the farmer’s equity had increased in the last three years.”—Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, M.P. (L.), at Wellington. ☆ ☆ ☆ “There is a more pressing need for national security—defence—than for social security.”—Hon. A. Hamilton, M.P. (Op.), at Christchurch. ☆ ☆ ☆ “The Government takes the view that they would rather spend money on houses than on defence, but defence expenditure is regrettably necessary.”—Labour Manifesto. ☆ ☆ ☆ “My Maori friends may rest assured that if there is one man who would give his last drop of blood to improve the lot of the Maori, it is Mr. Savage.”—Hon. P. C. Webb, M.P. (L.), at Kaikoura, to a Maori questioner. ☆ ☆ ☆ “The people are going to express in no uncertain terms that they are not going to stand for the filching of constitutional liberty and personal freedom.”—Mr. S. G. Holland, M.P. (Op.), Christchurch North. ☆ ☆ ☆ “What the Labour Government has done is to take the dairyman out of the grip of Tooley Street merchants and those in this counti'y that Lad been exploiting them.”-—Mr. R. McKeen, M.P. (L.), Wellington South. ☆ ☆ ☆ “The country is far too dependent on three commodities—meat, wool and dairy produce. A greater variety of

The Government candidate for the Bay of Islands electorate, Mr. C. W. Boswell, M.A., was born at Coromandel, attending the Driving Creek School. Entering the teaching profession, he has spent many years of his service in the North, and has an intimate knowledge of farmers and farm conditions. Stationed for some years in Auckland, he took advantage of this to take his Master’s degree in Arts at the University. He has been closely associated with the Labour movement for many years, and is at present Chairman of the Bay of Islands L.R.C. Wherever stationed, Mr. Boswell has taken a prominent part in church work. He is a member of the Baptist denomination, but as a Sunday School superintendent has served in any denomination where need has existed. Mr. Boswell, who is at present headmaster of the District High School at Kawakawa, has been in the forefront of education matters throughout his teaching career. For the last six years he has been a member of the National Executive of the New Zealand Educational Institute, representing six thousand teachers throughout the Dominion. Outside his profession, Mr. Boswell has taken a wide interest in local affairs. At present he is an executive member of the Kawakawa Chamber of Commerce. He has lectured widely on subjects of social and economic interests, and was well-known in Auckland as a debater in Athanaeam Cup contests. Mr. Boswell has one son, Mr. L. A. Boswell, 8.A., who is also a teacher, being stationed at Tahelceroa School.