ANOTHER SEAT VACANT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16480, 5 March 1917, Page 4

ANOTHER SEAT VACANT

THE BAY OF ISLAND?. '% MR. W. STEWART/'RESIGN. ANNOUNCEMENT '[{)/ ELECTORS, ' [BY .TELEGRAPH.—OWN- CpRRESI'OVDEJrr] ' .■;;C::KA^AKAWA,-:.Sund ly . The member for .-the Bay of. Islands, y W. Stewart,, has . decided' .to rqsien hi, seat in the. House, " : of ■ R+; n•-.^tat^,» s Several months "ago fie.. desired to pl ac 6 his resignation in .the hard; of fta Speaker,.but was prevailed upon to hold it until the return < i- the Prune jjj. istcr. The delay-that'hap occurred in holding the 'Imperial Confei'-er.' ■■>, howeve' has made the da to of Mr. "Ma.«.«-"> "> return uncertain,-and under the,-,/: i ■. i:mr tanc« Mr. Stewart ''coh.siders th.v ,■• ■■< <.=-i\ , u ,. tice to his .constituency 10 r •_- -i.- how"~'t« ■ ■■ ■■.■ ■.■',■■■ " ■»-. that : a. .successor, may {*>, u •■■' lv l?Ae his seat.at ,the -opening of ! r Ernest \-\ June "In "hi/ cii i:oa (, 01 to eeiec tors 0f... the.'.■ district Mr. >"*<-.'•' states that .on being .press*! to i'-:>-t. -th 9 ..vacancy at'"the- by election '•'.• d«-.iswn : was necessarily f.i\ c-n ■ hur.icj >■ \" er - ; soon.he-found .'.tha: to do ]■-..« > to.'ha j position, and .to .'give, the a't.» / neoes j sary-.to the many'want? cf -the. e, - .rate, it would. practicrl-'j necessitate hi? ; abandoning his own' private businesK.. Realis. ■ ing:. this ;' Ho .had decided to ■.'retire from politics.