Who will Represent Us in Parliament ?

Northland Age, Volume XVI, Issue 16, 22 November 1946, Page 1

Who will Represent Us in Parliament ?

JJORN in Ashburton, South Island, in 1893, Mr. S. VV. (Sid) Smith, National candidate for Hobson, was educated there at the primary and high schools. He entered on a business training- at Ashburton after leaving school, and in 1913 went to Greymouth to take up a position there. He served during the 1914-18 war, enlisting in 1915 and being invalided home in December 1918. On regaining his health he entered into a farming partnership in the Bay of Islands, but four years later returned to the business sphere when he took over the management of Wallace Supplies, Kawakawa. He left that position in 1930 to take up and farm 220 acres of land at Pakaraka, where he has since resided. Mr. Smith is Chairman of Directors of the Bay of Islands Dairy Company, and was a member of the Bay of Islands County Council and the Bay Hospital Board. He was elected to Parliament in 1943, when he opposed the Government candidate, Mr. C. W. Boswell. In that election, Mr. Smith outstripped the Labour candidate by nearly 2,000 votes.

Next Wednesday will Decide

M R . PATRICK, Labour candidate for the Hobson seat, was born in Hamilton, centre of the rich Waikato district, in the year 1891. His parents had been immigrants from Northern Ireland. On his father’s retiring from business, the family moved to Northcote, one of Auckland’s north shore suburbs. He later farmed land with his brothers near Papakura, and then visited Australia, where he worked on farms in the Manning River area. He served during the Great War with the Auckland Mounted Rifles, having joined up in August, 1914. Leaving the army, Mr. Hatrick came North in search of farm land in 1919, and in May of that year settled at Waimate North, where he has since resided. Mr. Hatrick has always been active in farming affairs. He is a Director of the Kaikohe Dairy Company, and was instrumental in helping to establish the Co-operative Farm Machinery Unit. Mr. Hatrick also took a keen interest in the N.Z.F.U., and was a Past President of the Kaikohe R.S.A.