PATEA BY-ELECTION
OFFICIAL REFORM CANDIDATE. MR DIXON SELECTED. (Peb United Press Association.) HAWERA, March 18. At a meeting of the Reform League Mr E. Dixon, Mayor of Hawera, was selected as the official Reform candidate. Four were nominated. (From Otm Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, March 18. The official Reform candidate for the Pa tea seat is to be Mr E. Dixon, the Mayor of Hawera. The selection was made at a meeting of the party in the electorate today. Sir Dixon, who is a New Zealander by birth, is in business at Hawera. He has been Mayor of the borough for some years, and has been very successful in his handling of borough affairs. He has taken a keen interest in education, and was for some years a member of the Wanganui Education Board and subsequently, after the division of the district, of the New Plymouth Education Board. He is a member of the Repatriation Board, and has been connected prominently with the Prohibition Party. The official Opposition candidate, as already announced, is to be Mr Morrison, who contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1919.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18198, 19 March 1921, Page 10
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183PATEA BY-ELECTION Otago Daily Times, Issue 18198, 19 March 1921, Page 10
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