ANOTHER CANDIDATE
CAPTAIN RAMSAY'S SEAT LONDON, August 19 A meeting of the Peebles and South Midlothian Unionist Association adopted Mr. J. L. Clyde, K.C., as its prospective candidate to support the National Government. It was intimated after the meeting that Captain A. H. Ramsay had refused to resign his seat in Parliament. Captain Ramsay was arrested under the defence regulations in May, 1940, and has been in custody ever since. It was announced recently that the association was asking its member of Parliament, Captain Ramsay, to resign his seat. The association called the attention of the Government to the fact that the constituency's difficult position persisted, in spite of repeated requests that the matter should be.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24049, 21 August 1941, Page 10
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116ANOTHER CANDIDATE New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24049, 21 August 1941, Page 10
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