LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22558, 30 April 1935, Page 4

LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS

BIOGRAPHIES OF CANDIDATES I ' With a view to furnishing the electors with some guidance concerning the qualifications of candidates in the forthcoming local body elections, biographies have been compiled of those offering themselves for election to the principal bodies in and around the city.

DUNEDIN MAYORALTY CITIZENS’ TICKET J. J. MARLOW Mr J. J. Marlow was born in London in 1862 and was educated there. In 1874 he came to New Zealand, and has been engaged in business since 1893. He entered public life in 1896 as a member of the South Dunedin Council. Removing to St. Kilda, he became a member of the St. Kilda Council on the day that lu, severed his connection with South Dunedin, and later occupied the office of Mayor of the borough for two years. He thm became a member of the Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board, and served on that body for 16 years. He was elected to the City Council in 1909, and was a member' of -that body for six years, being chairman of the Electric Power and Lighting Committee from 1911 to 1915. He has been a member of the Dunedin South Licensing Committee for 28 years, and for the greater part of that time has been deputy chairman. He was re-elected to the City Council in 1929 and has been a member ever since. This is the third occasion on which he has contested the mayoralty. Mr Marlow is a foundation member of the Otago Expansion League, and is now serving his second term as president. _ For the past 31 years he has been a justice of the peace, and is a past president of the Otago Justices’ Association. He has been for manv years the City Council’s representati ,-e on the King Edward Technical College Board of Managers, and is chairman of the board at the present tune. is the council’s representative on the ecutive of Hie Otago Aero Club and was for foifr years a member o£ the Otago Charitable Air Board. In the worlv’. of sport he has also taken a prom inent • dministrative place, haying been president of the Dunedin Bowling Centre and of the New Zealand Bowling Association while he has been president of the St. Kilda Lawn Tennis Club for more than 28 years, chairman of directors ot the St. Kilda Bowling Club for a lengthy period, and has also occupied the Position cf chairman of the Bowling Club.

years, and recently retired. He has always taken a keen interest in sport and athletics, and is a patron of the Otago Cricket League, vice-president of the Zingari-Richnond Football Club, and an cx-president of the Dunedin Bowling Centre, while he wae at one time a member of the Dominion Bowling Council. Mr Cameron was for six years a member of the St. Kilda Borough Qmncil, and has filled the position of Mayor of the borough. He is at the present time a of the Otago Education Board, and is a trustee of the Duuedin Savings Bank. He has been closely connected with the efforts for the relief of distress arising from unemployment, acting ae a member of the executive of the St. Kilda Relief Depot. In 1925 he was elected vice-president of the Dominion Methodist Conference. WILLIAM BEGG Mr W. Begg was born in Edinburgh, but was brought to Dunedin at an eaily age. His education was concluded at the University of Otago. As a young man he took an active part in various branches of sport, including football, cycling, and aquatics, and he has maintained an interest in bowling. He was also prominent in the volunteer movement. He entered local politics in 1909 as a member of the North-East Valley Borough Council, which, in the year following his election, amalgamated with the city. From that time he has retained ay seat on the City Council, and for the 1919-21 term he was elected Mayor of the city, the* peace celebrations and the visit of the Prince of Wales occurring during his occupancy of the office. Mr Begg is well known for his association with the Water Committee of the council, of which he has been chairman since the conclusion of his term as Mayor. He presented to the ratepayers the Deep Creek water supply scheme which is now in progress. He is at present the Government representative on the Otago Harbour Board, and he has also on the Otago Hospital Board, the Dunedin Fire Board, and the Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage Board.

WALTER ALEXANDER SCOTT Mr W. A. Scott, who is of Scottish descent, was educated at Westtown Col-' lege. He spent the early part of his life in Chester (U.S.A.), where he _ served his apprenticeship to the--engineering trade. :Mr Scott came to New_ Zealand 45 years ago, and, after a residence of seven years in Christchurch, he came to Dunedin and founded the cycle, motor cycle, and engineering business which he and his sons still carry on. A member of the City Council, he has a record of 23 years’ service. During the whole of this period he has been a member of the Electric Power and Lighting Committee, and he has also been for 21 years a member of the Tramways Committee, serving for eight years as chairman. He has also acted as chairman of the General and Gas Committees, and, besides being a member of the Finance Committee, has also been one of the council’s representatives on the Drainage Board. For 22 years he hag been u member of the Dunedin (now the Metropolitan) Fire Board, and at present he is a member of the Technical Board of Managers and of the Ocean Beach Domain Board. Mr Scott has been closely connected for many years with the game of bowls and for 26 years has been the official tester of bowls for the New Zealand Bowling Association. The local bands and a,number of sporting clubs have had in Mr Scott a keen supporter.

WILLIAM JULIAN BARDSLEY Mr W. J. Bardsley was born near Manchester, England,. and came to Dunedin while a boy. He was for many years secretary of the Otago Harbour Board, retiring'from that position several years ago. Previous to that Mr Bardsley was for a number of years secretary of the Timaru Harbour Board. While in Timaru, associated with Mr James Craigie and several other citizens, he inaugurated the Caroline Bay development scheme, which has since achieved remarkable results. During the time he has been in Dunedin, Mr Bardsley was connected with the founding of the BurkesSt._ Leonards Progressive League, of which he has been president since its Inception. Mr Bardsley has always taken an active interest in matters associated with the tourist traffic of the Dominion, and in this connection he has devoted particular attention to the disadvantages under which the South Island has laboured. He is a member of the Otago Expansion League and. of a special committee formed at the Mount Cook conference to deal with tourist matters. He has been prominently associated with the Baptist Church, of which he was president last year.

HENRY LOUIS PATERSON Mr H. L. Paterson was born in Dunedin and was educated at the Arthur Street School, the Otago Boys’ High School and ‘the Otago University. In 1914 he was elected a member of the New Zealand Institute of Surveyors. He served with the New Zealand Field Artillery on Gallipoli, and returned home towards the end of 1915. For some time he acted as an engineer for the Public Works Department in the construction of the Ardgour irrigation scheme. Returning to jJunedin in 1924, Mr Paterson joined the firm of Messrs N. and E. S. Paterson, Ltd., as director in charge of the surveying and engineering department. He has- been prominently connected with the work of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Association, of which he has been an executive member since 1924, having been president in 1928. He is senior vicepresident for the current year. Mr Paterson has taken an active interest in the affairs of the Otago Aero Club, of which he has been an executive member since 1928 and president since 1933. He is also a member of the council of the New Zealand Aero Club. He has been a member of the Citizens’ Relief Committee since its inception in 1928 and has acted as deputy chairman of the Mayor’s Relief Committee. He was for some time leader of the Otago Division of the New Zealand Legion. JOHN LESLIE M'INDOE Mr J. L. M'lndoe was born in Dunedin in 1898, and received his . early education at the Macandrew Road School, of which he was dux in 1911. After three years at the Otago Boys’ High School he entered his father’s printing business, and on the death of his father spent two years and a-half in Australia gaining business experience. Mr MTndoc enlisted at the age of 19 with the A.I.F. shortly before the Armistice, but was discharged, and returned to Dunedin to re-enter the printing business. In 1925 he was appointed manager of bis firm. He was first elected to the City Council in 1931, and again in 1933, and for the ■past two years has been chairman of the General Committee. He has represented the council on the Otago Aero Club tor three vears, and on the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society one year. He has been chairman of No. 4 Relief District for four years, and is president of the Otago Art Society. For many years he has taken an active interest in swimming and life-saving, and for seven years was president of the Otago Swimming Centre. ANDREW HENSON ALLEN Mr A. H. Allen was born in Dunedin in 1876 and was educated at the Caversham School. He has spent all his business life in the city, and is at present managing director of the firm of Messrs Allen, Son, and M'Clure, Ltd., general merchants. Mr Allen has identified himself with those organisations affecting the business life of the city, and in particular with the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce, of which he has been a member for a number of years. He was president of the chamber in 1930, and a striking tribute to th«

regard in which he is held was paid when, this year, he was chosen for the position of chairman of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of New Zealand. Mr Allen has also been for many year's a member of the Importers and Shippers’ Association, of which he was president for a considerable period. In the field of sport he has shown special interest in bowling and cricket. He is a past president of the St. Kilda Bowling Club and of the Dunedin Bowling Centre, and is at present a vicepresident of the Otago Cricket Associa; tion. Mr Allen has been a member of the City Council for two terms. He has been a member of the Finance Committee for four years, during the last two of which he has been chairman, and as such has been one of the city sinking fund commissioners. Mr Allen has been a member o£,;the General Committee and is a member of the Works Committee.

WILLIAM HENRY SHEPHERD Mr W. H. Shepherd was born in Melbourne and educated at the East Melbourne School. He gained his early busi-ness-training in that city, and came to Dunedin 21 years ago to take up the position of manager of the Bell Tea Company, a position which he still occupies. Ho is also a director of the company. During the time he has been in Dunedin Mr Shepherd has been associated with those bodies representing the commercial interests of the city. He has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce for the past 15 years, and has served two terms on the executive. He is also a member of the Dunedin Manufacturers’ Association, and is at present filling his third term on the executive of that body. In addition, he is president of the Dunedin Traders’ Welfare Association. Mr Shepherd has taken an active interest in sport, and has been a member of the Bowling Club for the past 18 years, including a term as president of the club. He was appointed a justice of the peace some 14 years ago. Mr Shepherd was elected a member of the City Council at the previous elections, and during the absence of Cr J. W. Munro in Wellington in connection with parliamentary business Cr Shepherd, as deputy chairman of the Reserves Committee, has filled the office of acting chairman of the committee. He has also represented the City Council on the Otago Aero Club, of which he is at present an executive member.

ROBERT WALLS Mr R. Walls, who will contest a City Council election for the second time, was born in Dunedin, receiving his_ education at the High Street and Union Street schools. For many years he was a member of the executive of the Furniture Trades Union, filling the office of president and being appointed a delegate to the Trades and Labour Council. He entered business in Dunedin 15 years ago, and is the proprietor of the firm of M'Cracken and Walls, radio and gramophone dealers. As the owner of the 4ZM broadcasting station, he takes a keen interest in radio transmission. At present he holds the office of vice-president of the Otago Radio Dealers’ Association. For a number of years he has been connected with the Royal Male Choir, serving for a term on its Executive Committee, and he is also a member of the Dunedin Orphans’ Club and the Loyal Dunedin Lodge.

ALFRED CLARK Mr A, Clark was born in Palmerston and was educated at the local district high school. After farming for some years in Central Otago, he came to Dunedin and entered the service of Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co., Ltd., retiring two years ago after 30 years’ connection with the firm. For the latter half of that period he was head of the stock department. He is at present in business in Dunedin as a land and estate agent. Though Mr Clark is for the first time a candidate for a seat on the City Council, he is not without local body experience, as, during his residence in Palmerston, he was a member of the borough council. He also served on the "School Committee there. Mr Clark takes a wide interest in sport. He is a member of the committee of the Forbury Park Trotting Club, a member of the Dunedin Jockey Club, and several other sporting bodies.

JOHN JACKSON PURDIE Mr John Jackson Purdie Was born at Port Chalmers and received his early education there, completing at the old Normal School in Dunedin. He commenced in business on his own account in 1908. and has had a very successful commercial career. He was the first person in Dunedin to use a petrol-driven vehicle for commercial purposes. He is interested in the Otago Motor Club, and the Otago Employers’ Association, and is president of the Port Chalmers Old Identities’ Association. He has taken a keen interest in sport and is associated with various football and athletic clubs and regatta committees.

LABOUR

EDWIN THOMS COX The Rev. E. T. Cox, who is the Labour nominee for the mayoralty of Dunedin, was born at Martin in the North IslandHe was educated at Prince Albert College in Auckland and at Auckland UniTersity College, where he paid special attention to economics and philosophy. The latter part ot Mr Coxa university training was received at Victoria ) College, from which he graduated' Master of Arts ■. m 1915 with first-class honours in history, -tie entered the ministry of the.. Methodist Church 27 years ago in Auckland, and for six years held the position of superintendent of the Auckland-'Central Mission. His work was attended by considerable success, and for the last three years of his connection with the mission the services were held in the_ Strand Theatre, then the largest theatre in Auckland. The next three years of Mr Coxs ministry were spent in Gisborne, and he was then transferred to the Central Church at Wanganui, where he remained for eight years. During the time he spent in Wanganui, he was for three years president of the local branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association. Six years ago he made a tour round the world, in the course of which he had the opportunity of seeing at first hand something of the way in which the cities of the old world are administered. Mr Cox came to the Mornington _ Methodist _ Church three years ago, and in the following year successfully contested the mayoral election. defeating his nearest opponent by a substantial majority. During his term of office outstanding events in connection with the position which he has held were the visit of the Duke of 'Gloucester to the city, and Mr Cox’s, visit to Melbourne as the official representative of the city at the centenary celebrations’. He has been left without pastoral . charge by the Methodist Conference for one year.

INDEPENDENT

ROBERT SHERIFF BLACK Mr R. S. Black, "who was born in Liverpool 67 years ago, is the son ( of James Sheriff 'Black, C.E., a descendant of; a very old Scottish family, the Blacks of: Craidmaddie. He was educated at the model school at Coleraine, Londonderry, and arrived in Melbourne in 1884, joining the service of the Bank of Australasia. He holds the diploma of associate of the Banking Institute of Australasia. Mr Black came to New Zealand in 1897 and commenced business in; the rabbit export trade. He went to America in 1917 to fight the embargo ’against rabbit skins and was successful in having it removed. He was elected a member of the Roslyn Borough Council 28 years' ago, and came into the City Council with the amalgamation of that borough. He was Mayor of Dunedin from 1929 to 1933. He is an active member of the Royal Male Choir. He has been a deacon of the Roslyn Presbyterian Church for 35 years. He takes a "keen interest in all sports, especially lawn tennis, and is president of the Roslyn Lawn Tenpis Club. He has also held the office of president of the Otago Lawn Tennis Association. He was for many years a member of the Roslyn Bowling Club and the Otago Golf Club. He is actively associated with the sport of curling, >and has held the office of president of the New Zealand Curling Province. Mr Black was the first president of the South Island Tourist League, and is a vice-president of the Otago Expansion League. He is a life member of the Returned Soldiers’ Association, the Overseas’ Club, and the Navy League, of which he is a vice-president.

CITY COUNCIL

CITIZENS’ TICKET FRANCIS WILLIAM MITCHELL Mr F. W. Mitchell was born in Mornington, and was educated at the Mornington School and the Otago Boys’ High School. He spent some 12 years in the service of the Colonial Bank and the Bank of New Zealand, -and for many years since then has been engaged in commercial pursuits in the city. He is a director of several leading companies. In the field of sport Mr Mitchell is a past president and life member of the Otago Rowing Club, a past president of the Otago Golf Club, and was formerly a delegate from Otago to the New Zealand Rugby Football Union. He has been for many years closely associated with the Commercial Travellers’ Association, of •which he is a past president, and has taken especial interest in the organisation of the annual Big Day for the relief of distress in the city. He was elected a member of the City Council in 1923, and served for eisht years, with a break of two years from 1925-27. During that period he was at different times chairman of the General and Works Committees. He unsuccessfully contested the last mayoral election. He is at the present time a member of the University Council, and was also for some time chairman of the local Unemployment Committee. During the war he was a member of the Patriotic Association and Reparation Committee, and has occupied a position on a number of other public and semipublic bodies. DONALD CHARLES CAMERON Mr D. C. Cameron was born in Dunedin. He was connected with the firm ®f Messrs Reid and Gray, Ltd., for 44

LABOUR

MICHAEL CONNELLY . Mr M. Conpelly was born at Kakaramea, Taranaki, where his father was a farmer. At an early age he removed to the West Coast of the South Island, where he was educated at a convent and at State schools. He followed mining for a few years, after which he joined the railway service, and he soon became identified with the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, occupying every position in that organisation, including the Dominion presidency. He has been a member of the Railway Superannuation Board for the past eight years and a former representative on the Railway Appeal Board. As one of the founders of the only Labour daily newspaper in New Zealand, the Grey River Argus, Mr Connelly occupied a seat on the directorate and was first secretary of the new company. He contested the Chalmers seat in 1925 in the interests of the Labour Party. He has been associated with various bands in the Dominion, having been a member of the Port Nicholson Silver Band when it was formed, while in sport ho played senior Rugby football on the West Coast for a number of years.

PETER NEILSON Mr Peter Neilson was born in Dunedin and received his primary education at the George Street School. He is a baker by trade, and was in business for a number of years with Mr J. W. Munro, M.P., under the name of the Union Bakery. He is now foreman for the present proprietor of this business, Messrs J. and W. Abbott. He was a member of the Maori Hill Borough Council for two terms and has _ always taken a keen interest in trade union and Labour Party matters, having held various offices in these bodies. He is president of the Otago Trades and Labour Council and is on the execctive of the Otago Labour Representation Committee. He was an unsuccessful candidate at the last municipal elections. In 1931 Mr Neilson contested the Dunedin Central seat for the Labour Party against the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Sir Charles Statham), but suffered defeat. He has again been selected by the party to contest this seat at the approaching general election. RALPH HARRISON Mr Ralph Harrison was born in Lancashire, England, in the midst of a large mining district. It was almost inevitable, therefore, that _ he should follow the occupation of a miner. Early in his life •’be commenced to take an interest in the miners’ organisations, and by 1912 lie was president of one of the large unions in the north of in addition to being chairman of the Newton-le-Wiljows Labour Party. He was also a member of the Independent Labour Party in England. In 1914 Mr Harrison emigrated to Australia, arriving there after an exciting voyage, which was delayed owing to the caution necessary through the activities of the German raider, Emden. In the same year he identified himself with the miners’ organisations in Queensland, becoming president of the Sugar Loaf Miners’ Union. Two years later he came to New Zealand, arriving in Westport in 1916. In the next five years he lived successively at Christchurch. Taratu, and Green Island, being at various times a member of the executive of the Denniston Miners’ Union, president of the Taratu Miners’ Union, and president of the Green Island Miners’ Union. At the present time he is secretary of the Otago and Southland General Labourers’ Union, of which he was at one time president. He is an executive member of the New Zealand National Labour Party and a member of the District Council of the Workers’ Educational Association. Mr Harrison

contested the Dunedin West seat in the interest of the Labour Party in 1925 and 1928. being defeated on each occasion by Mr W. Dowuie Stewart. He was a candidate at the municipal elections in 1925 and at each successive election, and has also been a candidate in the elections for the Harbour Board.

JAMES HARRISON Mr James Harrison, who is the son of Mr Ralph Harrison, also a candidate for the City Council in the interest of the Labour Party, was born in England in 1903, and received his education at the Downall Green School in Lancashire, at the Rangevilie State School in Queensland, and finally at the Denniston School on the West Coast. After leaving school, he worked for two years in the coal mines at Denniston and later at the Taratu coal mine. Fifteen years ago he joined the staff of the Railways Department, in which he worked in the locomotive branch, and he is now acting engine driver on the south express, Mr Harrison has taken an active part in the Labour movement for a number of years, ajid has for a considerable period been a‘ member of the Dunedin Central branch of the Labour Party. In 1931 he wag elected a member of the Grand Council of the Engine Drivers’, Firemen’s, and Cleaners’ Union as a representative of the Otago branch, and in the next year he represented both Otago and Southland on the council. He still holds his position as the Otago representative on the council. In addition, Mr Harrison is a delegate from the Dunedin Central branch on the Otago Labour Representation Committee. This is the first occasion on which he has contested a municipal election.

DAVID GERVAN M’MILLAN Dr D. G. M'Millan, who since 1931 has taken an active and prominent part in Labour affairs in Otago, became a member of the Labour Party in 1923. He was born at New Plymouth and educated at the Stratford District High School, of which he was dux in 1921. He won a Taranaki university scholarship in the following year, and proceeded to Otago University, which ha attended as a medical student. After a period as house surgeon at the Christchurch Public Hospital, Dr M'Millan commenced‘'.practice at Kurow, where he was also medical officer to the Waitaki hydro camp and superintendent of the Kurow Maternity Home. The extent of his professional work prevented him from taking an active part in local body politics in North Otago. He was, however, a member of the Kurow School Committee, heading the poll at the last election. During the time he was ih Kurow, Dr M'Millan earned the esteem and respect of the residents of the upper Waitaki, and at the farewell social given to himself and Mrs M'Millan the opportunity was taken to pay tribute to the high regard in which he was held. For many years Dr M'Millan has been an ardent advocate of a national health service, and last autumn the Labour Party published a pamphlet written by him dealing with this subject. This is a subject with which he is peculiarly fitted to deal, and it may be assumed that his party will pay particular attention to what he has to say on a topic of such national interest.

MARK SILVERSTONE Mr Mark Silverstone was born of Jewish parents in Russian Poland in 1882. After having been taken to London at an early age, he received a primary education, and at the age of 13 years commenced work as an apprentice to/the furniture trade. He has been engaged in the woodwork industry ever since. Mr Silverstone arrived in Dunedin in August, 1904, becoming a naturalised New; Zealand subject in the following year. On his arrival he became a member of the Furniture Trade Union, and was immediately appointed the union’s representative on the Workers’ Political Committee. In 1910 he was actively associated with the reorganisation of the Otago Labour Representation Committee, of which he has been president twice, and is now vice-president for the fifth time. He was for many years a member of the Otago Labour Council, and was its president in 1919. From its inception Mr Silverstone was for many years a member of the Workers’ Educational Association, and studied economics and social and political science under Professor Bedford, and also under Archdeacon Woodthorps and _ Professors Pringle and Fisher. He is at present conducting a class in working class education on the principles laid down by the workers’ colleges of England. He is in business on his own account and works on the principle of two-hour shifts with 10 minutes for refreshments, the actual working time being not more than 7 hours 40 minutes per day._ Sickness, resulting from physical exertion, has been reduced to a minimum. Mr Silverstone is at present a member of the Dunedin City Council.

PHILIP GEORGE CONNOLLY Mr P. G. Connolly, a grandson of Otago pioneers, was born in Dunedin in 1899, and was educated at the Macandrew Road School and the King Edward Technical College. He entered the Hillside Railway Workshops as an apprentice fitter, and on the completion of his apprenticeship joined the seagoing staff of the Union Steam Ship Company as a junior engineer, being subsequently elected a member of the Institute of Marine and Power Engineers (N.Z.). In 1918 Mr Connolly left Dunedin with the last reinforcement draft to undergo a special n.c.o. course, but the war terminating, he returned to Dunedin. He was shortly afterwards gazetted as a second lieutenant in the Territorial Forces. In 1928, when the Otago Division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve was formed, he was one of the original officers, and at present holds the rank of lieutenant-commander. He is also vicepresident of the wardroom officers and chairman of the Small-bore Rifle Club. Mr Connolly has just completed terms as president of the South Dunedin branch of the Labour Party and chairman of the South Dunedin Literary and Debating Club. He is secretary of the Otago Labour Representation Committee, and his name hag recently been added to the approved list of parliamentary Labour candidates. He was for some time secretary of the No. 4 District Relief Committee.

JOHN ROBINSON Mr J. Robinson was born in Tapanui in 1882, and has resided in Dunedin for the past 24 years. He was educated at Roxburgh, and after serving an apprenticeship as a compositor, he followed the dredging boom, gaining, during that period, considerable experience in the blacksmithing and engineering trades, and in bridge-building and general construction work. He was employed for some time in the Railways Department, and later, for live years, in the Gas Department of the City Corporation. Later still, he served for about four years as conductor and motorrnan in the Tramways Department. He has always taken a keen interest in Labour matters, and was one of the two persons responsible for the publication of the Democrat, a monthly Labour journal now out of print. He is at present secretary of the Otago Trades and Labour Council, the Trades Hall Company, the Tramways Employees’ Union, and numerous other trades unions affiliated to the Central Labour Office. In 1927 he was chosen by the local Labour movement to give evidence before the Labour Bills Committee of Parliament on the Government’s proposed amendments to the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and the following year, was one of the local workers’ representatives on the National Industrial Conference Called by the Reform Government in 1928. lie has been associated with the Labour Party for many years, and for some time was a member of the local executive. He unsuccessfully contested the Dunedin Central seat against Sir Charles Statham at the 1928 general election, and from 1932 until September. 1934, he was a member of the St. Kilda Borough Council. He has been appoined as the tramway employees’ representative on the Tramways Appeal Board. FREDERICK JONES Mr P. Jones, M.P., was born in Dunedin, and after serving his apprenticeship as a clicker he was employed in Messrs Rargood. Son, and Ewen’g boot factory for 21 years, for the greater part of which period he was secretary of the employees’ Sick Benefit Society. As a member of the Bootmakers’ Union for 31 years, he has held nearly every official position in that body, and in 1928 he was appointed by the Government to act on the Footwear Inquiry Committee. For many years he hag been actively associated with the Otago Labour Council and the Otago Labour Representation Committee, and has been president of each

body on three occasions. He has also been a member of the National Executive of the New Zealand Labour Party. Always keenly interested in the question of adult education, he was one of the original members of Mr H. D. Bedford’s class in economics, and is at present a vice-president of the Workers’ Educational Association. Recently he was elected patron of the Dunedin Homing Pigeon Club, of which body he was for some years an active member and latterly a vice-president. He is also a member of the Royal Oak Druids’ Lodge. The Caversham Kindergarten has always found an active supporter in Mr Jones, who is a past chairman of the Parents’ Committee of that institution. Mr Jones unsuccessfully contested the city mayoralty in 1929, but was successful, in 1931, in winning the Dunedin South seat against Mr D. C. Cameron and Mr W. B, Taverner. In 1933 lie was elected a member of the Otago Hospital Board, the Otago Harbour Board and the City Council.

BRYAN O’DONNELL Mr Bryan O’Donnell, who was born at Kilmallock, County Limerick, Ireland, was educated at the Kilmallock National School and the Christian Brothers High School at Charleville. He started work as a clerk in the Great Southern Railway, and was a civil servant in the War Office, London, from 1912 to 1914, when, on the outbreak of the war, he joined the Second King Edward’s Horse. He went to France in December, 1914. and served on the western front until 1917, when he was wounded for the third time during the battle of the Somme. He was discharged in 1918, being at that time a sergeantmajor instructor at the Aldershot Command. After serving for 12 months with the United States Army in France as a field clerk. Mr O’Donnell came to New Zealand. He was a member of the Labour Party at Home, and is a member of the New Zealand Labour Party. Ha was a member of the executive of the Otago General Labourers’ Union for four years, and was for two years vice-president of the Dunedin West branch of the Labour Party. He has been both vice-president and president of the Dunedin North branch and secretary of the Otago Labour Representation Committee. Mr O’Donnell represented Otago at the national conference of the New Zealand Labour Party last year, and was elected president of the Otago Labour Representation Committee for 1935. He has been nominated in the selection ballot to contest the. Central Otago seat in the interest of his party. Mr O’Donnell stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the City Council in 1929 and for the City Council and Hospital Board in 1933.

JAMES WRIGHT MUNRO Mr J. W. Munro, M.P., was born at Roslyn in 1870, and has spent all his life in Dunedin. For some years he carried on a bakery business of his own at North Dunedin, and during an active participation in local Labour affairs extending over a period of many years, he was president of the Bakers’ Union, vice-presi-dent of the Otago Trades and Labour Council, and president of the Political Labour League. In 1908 he unsuccessfully contested the Dunedin West seat against Mr J. A. Millar, and, standing again three years later, was defeated in the first ballot, his opponents being Mr Millar and Mr* H. D. Bedford. In 1914 he received an actual majority of votes cast in Dunedin Central, but on a recount a considerable _ number of his votes was found to be invalid, with the result that he was defeated by 12 votes by Sir Charles Statham. Sir Charles, however, refused to take advantage of the informality, .and resigned his seat, only to defeat Mr Munro again at the by-election. After again unsuccessfully contesting the Dunedin Central seat in 1919, Mr Munro was returned for Dunedin North at a by-election in 1922, and retained the seat at the general election 'held at the end of the same year. He lost it -to Mr H. L. Tapley in 1925, but regained it in 1928, and won it again against Mr J. M*Crae in 1931. At the local body elections in 1927 and again in 1929, 1931, and 1933 be was returned as a member of the Otago Harbour Board and of the City Council.

WILLIAM WALKER BATCHELOR Mr W. W. Batchelor wag born at Nelson, and came to Dunedin in 1915. Ever since leaving school he has been closely associated with the Labour Movement, and at preseut is secretary of the Shop Assistants, Hairdressers Employees, Woollen Mills Employees and Hill Tramways Employees’ Unions. He is a vice-presi-dent of the Otago Labour Council, and tor some time acted as treasurer of the Labour Representation Committee. -tU 1925, 1927, 1929, and 1931 he was an unsuccessful candidate at the City Council and Otago Hospital Board elections, and he was also defeated at the election for the City Council two years ago. He is one of the representatives of the employees on the King Edward Technical College Board of Managers.

INDEPENDENT JAMES SANDILANDS DOUGLAS Mr J* S. Douglas, who was born in Dunedin, was educated at Walker’s private school (All Saints’ Church), the Old Stone School, the George Street School, and the Pine Hill School. Leaving school, he was apprenticed to _ the plumbing trade, and on the formation of the first union in the trade was appointed its secretary. In 1895 he acquired a business with Mr James Wilson as partner, and served for several years as secretary of the Master Plumbers’ Association. He was president of the association in 1899, and retired in 1933 after filling that position for 30 years. He served three terms as president of the New Zealand Master Plumbers’ Federation. Mr Douglas was a member of the Dunedin Drainage Board for 19 years, and for 15 years was a member of the City Council, occupying the mayoral office for one term. He was a member of the Ocean Beach Domain Board for 14 years, and for 12 years a member of the Otago Harbour Board. He has also served on the University Council, the Otago High Schools Board, and the Dunedin Licensing Committee. He was chairman of the provisional committee set up to launch the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition. 1 ' Mr Douglas has been treasurer of the Leith Street and United Congregational Churches for 41 years. He was appointed a justice of the peace in 1916.

CHARLES ANDREW WILSON Mr C. A. Wilson was born in Dunedin and educated at the North-East Valley and George Street Primary Schools. He was a pupil at the Otago Boys’ High School, and later attended the Otago University. Upon leaving university he entered his father’s brewing business, well known in those days as the Well Park Brewery. Mr Wilson has had a lifetime’s experience in the brewing industry, and at the present time he is managing director of the Dunedin Brewery and Malt Extract Company. He has devoted a great deal of time and attention to acclimatisation matters, and has been for many years a member of the Acclimatisation Society, of which he was at one time president. At the present time he is the chairman of the Angling Committee, and is also a member of the committee controlling the Portobello Marine Biological Station. lie has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Young Men’s Christian Association. He lias been for many years a member of the George Street School Committee, of which he lias been chairman, including a term during the jubilee functions. At the present time be is chairman of the North Dunedin Amenities Society. Mr Wilson has been chairman of both the Bahnaecwen and Leith Bowling Clubs. CORNELIUS MACHIN MOSS Mr t. M. Moss, who was born at Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire S 3 years ago, became associated with the Labour movement at an early age. He held many offices in connection with Labour Union matters in England, and before coming to New Zealand was a member of the Independent Labour Party, f After his arrival in the Dominion, Mr Moss, who is an engineer by profession, took an active part in the affairs of the Amalgamated Engineers’ Society, in -which he held several official positions. For two years he was president of the Otago Tracies and Labour Council, and for a similar period he was president of the Labour Representation Committee. He has been a member of the National Executive of the New Zealand Labour Party. Mr Moss was in his younger days a keen rifle shot, and won a number of championships. He contested the Dunedin West seat in the interests of the Labour Party in 1922 and again in 1928, but was ‘defeated on both occasions by Mr W. Downie Stewart. He was also a candidate at the mayoral election in 1933.

HENRY ALEXANDER HAMER Mr H. A. Hamer was .born, in Dunedin 74 years ago, and was educated at the old Stone School. He served his apprenticeship in the building trade, and then was engaged for some time in gold mining. Returning to Dunedin, he was. appointed inspector during the construction of the Maori Hjll reservoir. .He also earned out the reticulation of the Maori Hill district. Later he secured an appointment as inspector on the Lee Stream tunnel work, and was subsequently employed on work at Waipori. Mr Hamer was engaged as inspector for the Roslyn Borough Council, and when the borough became merged with the city he entered the service of the City Corporation. lor many years lie filled the position of inspector for the Works Department, and he retired on superannuation in IJ3I. He contested the local body elections tor a seat on the City Council in 1931 and again in 1933, but was unsuccessful on each occasion.

A. W. MARTIN Mr A. W. Martin was born in Dunedin, and was educated at the High Street School. After leaving school he entered the commercial world and has recently retired after having been for 34 years the travelling representative of a leading manufacturing firm. He is parishioners’ churchwarden and honorary treasurer of St. Matthew’s .Church, and is a member of the executive of the Council of Christian Congregations.

COMMUNIST

ARTHUR BASIL POWELL Mr A. B. Powell was born at Talgarth, Wales, in 1874, and arrived in Dunedin with his parents in the ship Timaru two years later. He received his education at the Arthur Street and Normal Schools. For a time after leaving school he followed farming pursuits, and later went to sea, where he secured his master mariner’s ticket in sail. After sailing out of England for 10 years he returned to New Zealand, and was with the Union Steam Ship Company for seven years. He resigned from the Union Company to join the-service of the Post and Telegraph Department, with which he was associated for 15 years, during which time he passed the public service senior examination. He resigned from the department to take up farming, but after four years on the land he went Home to England and brought a steam trawler out to Sydney. He was a member of the Ravensbourne School Committee for three years.

SAMUEL IKIN Mr S. Ikin. who is a Communist candidate, was born at Bolton, Lancashire, where he wag educated at primary and secondary schools. He received his introduction to Socialism when he was apprentised to a builder, who was a Socialist, and from the age of 18 he was a member of the British Socialist Party, which was later merged with the Labour Party. Coming to New Zealand in 192 L he joined the Otago branch of the Carpenters Union, of which he was president for a term, also representing it on the Otago Labour Representation Committee and the Trades and Labour Council until a little over a year ago he was expelled from the Labour Party for holding Communist view's. Sis months ago he was appointed secretary of the Carpenters Union. While the Friends of the Soviet Union were organised in Dunedin he was their secretary for a period of two years. Mr Ikin was also one of the original executive of the Unemployed Workers’ Movement and is a member of the Council Against War and Fascism.

HARBOUR BOARD

CITIZENS* TICKET ROBERT FRASER Captain R. Fraser, late superintendent of mercantile marine at Dunedin, was born in Wellington in 1867. Apprenticed to the New Zealand Shipping Company in 1882, he passed his master's examination in 1890. In 1901 he supervised the construction of and brought out to New Zealand from Glasgow the defence vessels Janie Seddon and Lady Roberts. In 1908 he was appointed surveyor of ships to the New Zealand Government, and from 1921 to 1931 was superintendent of mercantile marine at. Dunedin. Ho was first chairman of the New Zealand Company of Master Mariners, and saw naval service with the Ist Expeditionary Force in 1914. He is now retired. HERBERT CECIL CAMPBELL Mr.H. C. Campbell, who was born in London in 1869, and was educated at the Cowper Street School there, served before the mast in deep ■water sailing ships before his arrival in New Zealand in 1889. Ten years later he established the firm of H. C. Campbell, Ltd., Customs agents, of which he is the managing director. He has a long record of service as a member of the Otago Harbour Board, to which he wag elected, in 1911, He has retained his seat ever since and is at present chairman of the board, having previously occupied that office in the 1922-23 term. It was not until 1927, however, that he sought election to the City Council, but following the success of his candidature in that year he has remained a member of that body, acting during his last term as chairman of the Tramways Committee. Mr Campbell has played an active part for many years in the affairs of the Otago Importers and Shippers’ Association, of which he has been president on a number of occasions, and he has also served as president of the Otago A. and P. Society and the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce. He is a director of the A.P.A. Assurance Company and the United Starr-Bowkett Society, and is a member of the Board of Governors of Columba College.

JOHN MYERS FRASER Mr J. M. Fraser was born at Woodside, West Taieri. He was educated at the Woodside School and spent one year at the Waitaki Boys’ High School, going later to the Otago Boys’ High School, which he attended for a further two years. He commenced his business life on the staff of the South British Insurance Company, and in 1901 he entered the employment of Messrs Donald Reid and Co., Ltd., with whom he remained fo, the next ten years. In 1911 he commenced business on his own account under the style of Fraser and Co., produce merchants, and is still in business. For a number of years Mr Fraser resided at St. Leonards, and it was as a member of the West Harbour Borough Council that he gained his first experience in local body affairs. He was elected to the council in 1915 and served for the next 14 years, during the last two of ; which he was Mayor of the borough. Mr Fraser is at present a member of the executive of the Otago High School Old Boys’ Association, of which he was for one year president. He is' a member of the board of Coluraba College. For many years he has been actively connected with the game of cricket, and for the past eight years he has been a member _of the Otago Cricket Association, occupying the position of president since 1932. His services to the game have been widely recognised, and for the term 1934-35 he has acted as president of the New Zealand Cricket Council. ROBERT DUNCAN Mr R. Duncan was born in Glasgow, where he obtained his early business experience. He afterwards Jived in Sydney and Brisbane, and, pn coming to Dunedin, entered the service of Messrs Ross and Glendining. Ltd., remaining with the firm for over SO years as departmental buyer and later as factory manager. He is at present managing director of Messrs Alex. Thompson and Sons, Ltd., canvas workers. Mr Duncan gained his first experience of local administration when he became a member of the City Council in 1909. He took no further part in local politics until 1932, when, upon the resignation from the Otago Harbour Foard of Mr J- H. Duncan, be was appointed by the Government to the vacancy. At the last local body elections he again offered his services and secured election. Mr Duncan took a prominent part in the affairs of the Dunedin Manufacturers’ Association for a period of five years, during the last three of which he was a vice-president. Though filling no executive office, he remains a member of the association. He is also a member of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce, on the council of which he served for three years. He has taken a prominent part in social work, particularly among the youth of the city, serving as president of the Dunedin branch of the Boys’ Brigade and also of the Dominion organisation of that movement.

JAMES HENRY DUNCAN Mr J. H. Duncan was born in NorthEast Valley in 1889. and was educated at the North-East Valley School. He commenced his business career in 1901 as a junior in the firm of Messrs H. L, Tapley and Co., of which he is now a director and general manager. He has thus had 34 years of practical shipping experience. He was elected to the Harbour Board in 1929 as representative of the ratepayers of Dunedin and St. Kilda, and remained a member until 1932, when he found it necessary to resign on account of his firm securing a contract with the board. He has always resided in Dunedin.

Highways Board. He is at the present time a member of the No. 9 Transport Licensing Authority. PERCY WILFRED MOSS Mr P. W. Moss, who was born in Dunedin, was educated at the Portobello and Port Chalmers Schools. _ For oyer 33 years he has been in business with the ferrv steamer and boating services on the Otago Harbour. He served for five years on the Portobello Road Board, and was at one time the acting chairman of the board. He has also been connected with a number of local institutions. This is his first appearance as a candidate for a seat on the Harbour Board.

LABOUR

• J. W. MUNRO (See Biography under City Council.) P. NEILSON (See Biography under City Council.) R. HARRISON (See Biography under City Council.) B. O’DONNELL (See Biography under City Council.) DAVID COPLAND Mr David Copland was born in Scotland in 1883, and wa a educated there. On leaving school he_ followed agricultural pursuits for a time, and was also emploj'ed in various harbours in Scotland as well as in collieries. He has been a resident of Dunedin for many years. He is at present in his eighth consecutive term as president of the Dunedin Waterside Workers’ Union, and is also a member of the Otago Labour Representation Committee and of the local branch of the Alliance of Labour. Mr Copland is a keen student of economics, and has been a member of the W.E.A. for pome years. He was a candidate for the Harbour Board two years ago."

INDEPENDENT

w. J. BARDSLEY (See Biography under City Council.) A. W. MARTIN (See Biography under City Council.) ALEXANDER ROBERTSON Mr A. Robertson retired in 1933, after 40 years’ service with the Otago Ha l "' hour Board. He was born at Port Chalmers and educated at the Port Chalmers School, of which lie was dux in 1885. Leaving school, he was apprenticed to the engineering trade, and going to sea afterwards in the service of the Union Steam Ship Company, secured his firstclass marine ticket. He left the sea in order to erect gold dredges in Central Otago, and, after being engaged in that work for some years, was appointed in 1898 as engineer and dredgemaster of the Otago Harbour Board’s suction dredge Vulcan. He was later appointed dredgemaster of the 222, and in 1911 superintended the construction at Port Chalmers of the tug Dunedin. In 1916 Mr Robertson was in charge of the salvage work on the barque Antiope, which had been sunk at Bluff and which was successfully refloated. In 1927 he was sent to London to make arrangements for the calling of tenders for the construction of the dredge Otakou, and. later superintended her construction in Scotland. He was in charge of the reclamation of Lake Logan and of the railway deviation in connection with the New Zealand a,nd South Seas Exhibition.

PORT CHALMERS REPRESENTATIVES -

T. ANDERSON (See Biography under Port Chalmers Mayoralty.) T. SCOLLAY (See Biography under Port Chalmers Mayoralty.) ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL Mr A. Campbell haa taken a keen interest in the public life of Port Chalmers for many years. He has been a member of the Port Chalmers Fire Board for about eight years, holding the position of chairman for one year. He is secretary of the Port Chalmers Waterside Workers' Union. Mr Campbell was elected a member of the Otago Harbour Board in 1931 and again in 1933, as one of the two Port Chalmers representatives, heading the poll on both occasions. THOMAS FRANCIS MACKIE Mr T. F. Mackie was born in South Dunedin and educated at the Port Chalmers Convent and the Christian Brothers School. He was serving an apprenticeship with Messrs Miller Brothers, shipwrights, at Port Chalmers, when the w;ar broke out, and he volunteered for active service. After a period of service in France, he was invalided ,to England, and returned to New Zealand in February, 1918. He later attended the Technical College for a short period, and then secured a position as timekeeper and storekeeper for Messrs Miller Bros. Some years ago he obtained a similar position with the Otago Harbour Board at the Mole reconstruction works, and was engaged in this capacity until 1928, when, in conjunction with his sister, he took over the Crescent Hotel at Carey Bay. In 1925 and 1927 Mr Mackie was elected to the Port Chalmers Borough Council, and was chairman of the Finance Committee during his first term. Owing to his work at the Spit necessitating his absence from Port Chalmers, he was compelled to resign from the council in 1927. In 1931 he unsuccessfully contested the mayoral election in Port Chalmers, but was elected to the council at the last election.

TAIERI AND OTAGO PENINSULA REPRESENTATIVE

william; DICKINSON Mr W. Dickinson was born in Blyth, in Northumberland, England, in the centre of a mining district. He was engaged for many years as a coal miner, and early took an interest in the Labour movement. He was a member of the British Labour Party and the Independent Labour Party, and represented his own branch at a number of trades union conferences. In this way he was brought into touch with the leaders of the Labour movement at Home, meeting among others the present Prime Minister or Great Britain (Mr Ramsay MacDonald). He came to New Zealand in 1927. Mr Dickinson, who is a Socialist, is also a keen worker in the Methodist Church, and believes that Socialism _ and Christian ideals are identical. He is one of the local preachers of the Church in the Otago and Southland district. Since coming to Green Island he has resumed his connection with Labour matters, and until recently held the position of president of the Green Island branch of the Labour Party. He is the president of the Methodist Men’s Fellowship at Abbotsford, and was chief templar of the Dunedin district in the good templary movement for five years and a-balf. JOHN PRESTON Mr John Preston was born at Longlands Station, near Kycburn, which was owned from the time the virgin country was taken up by his father, Mr J. H. Preston. From his early youth, Mr John Preston was associated with his father in managing the well-known properties of Longlands. Black Forest and Forrestvale in Southland. He is at present the owner of “ Hazelhurst,” near Goodwood, and manager of “ Centrewood,” where his mother resides. Mr Preston has had experience in local body affairs, serving some nine years on the Waikouaiti County Council, of which body he was chairman for a term. He has taken an active part in the A. and P.Society and Farmers’ Union affairs, having been president of the Palmerston ’A. and P. Association and the Palmerston branch of the Farmers’ Union. For several years he renreseuted his district on the Provincial Council of the Farmers’ Union, and during 19'6 and 1927 he was provincial president, in addition to serving on the Dominion Executive, N.Z.F.U., for some years. Mr Preston has served on the Otago Executive of the Sheepowners’ Federation, and has been interested in the Royal Agricultural Society. At present he is a member of the Dominion Executive and chairman of the Southland District Council, which embraces Otago and Southland. Before the transport legislation was enacted, Mr Preston was a member of the District Council of the

COUNTRY DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES

HENRY MACLEAN DRIVER Mr H. M. Driver was horn in Dunedin and attended the Rev. T. L. Stanley’s school in Elder street, completing his education at a private school in Christchurch. On leaving school he worked on a sheep station in the Waimea district, after which he came to Clarendon, near Milton, where he is now farming. H« was for some years with a stock and station agency firm in Dunedin, after which he returned to Clarendon, where he has resided ever since. Mr Driver was a member of the Harbour Board for six years, he served for over 10 years on the Otago Hospital Board, and was for nine years a member of the Otago Electric Power Board, serving a term as chairman. He has been on the Bruce County. Council for over 36 years, having' been chairman six times, and was a member of the South Otago Hospital Board for two terms. '

RICHARD SAMUEL THOMPSON Mr R. S. Thompson, who was born at Lawrence, was educated at the Lawrence District High School and at the Otago University. He qualified as a civil engineer, and was for . several years assistant engineer to the, Otago Harbour Board, a fact which enables him to speak with especial authority on matters affecting the harbour and shipping to Otago generally. Mr Thompson later took up sheep farming, and at the present tint® is engaged in sheep farming and gold mining in the Wetherstones district. He was for some years a member of the Lawrence Borough Council. He has taken a close interest in matters affecting the farming community, and has been connected for many years with the Farmers’ Union movement. At the .present time he is a member of the executive of the Otago Provincial. Council o£ > the Farmers’ Union. He .is one of the'' largest enjployefs of labour in the district ‘which' he seeks to represent. Mr Thompson was elected to a seat on the Harbour. Board at the last elections.

HOSPITAL BOARD

CITIZENS ’ TICKET MISS J. E. RUNCIMAN Miss Jane Elizabeth Runciman arrived from Ireland with her parents as a, girl and has lived in Dunedin ever since. After leaving the Macandrew Road School she was employed in the clothing trade, and was a member, of the Committee of Management of the Dunedin Tailoresses’ Union before being appointed secretary in 1908 of the local union and also of the New Zealand Federated Clothing Trade. Miss Runciman has been a member of the Society' for the Protection of Women and Children for the past 20 years, and ia one of the delegates from'the Dunedin Tailoresses’ Union to the National Council of Women., She was among the‘fir*t women justices of the peace appointed in New Zealand, was a member, pf the executive of the Women’s Patriotic Association during the war, and in 1916 was appointed one of the honorary visitors in connection .with the Otago Soldiers’ Welfare and Patriotic Association. She was a member of the Committee which was formed in 1922, and again, in 1926, to deal with unemployment, and was for some years one of the three Labour Unions’ representatives on the King Edward Technical College Board. Miss Runciman is a member, of .the Women’s Unemployment Committee, and has been a member of the Otago Hospital Board for the past eight years. , , WILLIAM NEWLANDS Dr W. Newlands was born in 1876 at Maheno, where he received his primary education. He attended the Otago Boys’ High School, of which he was dux in 1893, and at the Otago University he gained a junior University, scholarship and the John Tinline scholarship in English, graduating M.A., and B.Sc. jProceeding to Edinburgh University Medical School, he graduated M. 8.,. Ch.B., in 1902, and F.R.C.S., Edin., in 1904., After practising for a short time in the Old Country he returned to Dunedin, and has been in practice here since. He has served., for 28 years on the honorary, staff of the Dunedin Hospital as a radiologist, assistant surgeon, and surgeon, and has occupied a post on the teaching staff of the Medical School for a slightly shorter period. He was elected a member of the Hospital Board 16 years ago* and has been a member ever since. Dr Newlands has been graduates’ representative on the Senate of the University of New Zealand since 1927. and is chairman of the Medical Council of New Zealand. He is chairman of the Court of Convocation of the University of Otago, and holds the rank of major (retired list), N.Z.M.C.

MARION BEATRICE FARQUHAR Miss Farquhar was born in Dunedin, and received her education at the Otago Girls’ High School and at Girton College. She has always taken a close interest in hospital work and is well known as a visitor to the hospitals. She had her first experience of local body work when she was elected .a member of the Otago Hospital Board at the last elections.

JOHN WILLIAM SCURR Mr J. W. Seurr was born in Dunedin and educated, at the Caversham School. He was on the Coolgardie goldfields shortlv after their discovery, and later moved' on to the Klondike field, where be participated in the greafrush of 1898. He later visited the United States, Canada, and England, and served with the Second Scottish Horse in the South African "War, returning to Dunedin after being severely wounded. Mr Seurr was a member of the Otago Hospital board for 12 years, having been chairman of the Benevolent Committee of that body for eight years. He was also_ a member of the Otago University Council foreignt year, and was chairman of its Work* Committee for six years. He is at present managing director of Messrs T. ocurr. Ltd., and also holds other important commercial offices.

ALEXANDER STEEL Mr Alexander Steel was born at T a P. a * nui and has been in business in Dunedin for 26 years. He was elected to the Hospital Board in 1933. He has been a member of the Mayor’s Relief Committee for four years, and is chairman of the committee" which controls the distribution of fuel. He has served on the Kaikorai School Committee for many years and naa been president of the Retail Fruiterers Association. Mr Steel has been a member of the Dunedin Bowling Club over a long period aud has occupied the position of president. (Continued on next page.)