LABOUR CANDIDATE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26274, 4 October 1946, Page 4

LABOUR CANDIDATE

MORNINGTON ELECTORATE MR W. A. HUDSON SELECTED The announcement that Mr W. A. Hudson has been selected as the Labour Party’s candidate for • the Mornington electorate was made at the party's queen carnival function last night. Mr Hudson, who is 48 years of age. was born in Caversham, and has spent all his life in Dunedin, except for two years when he served in the 1914-18 war in France. He was educated at the Caversham School and

the Technical College, and has since followed the printing trade. He joined the Labour Party in 1928, and has been at various times president of the Dunedin South Electorate Committee, secretary of the Caversham branch, and secretary, an executive member and, since 1943. a vice-president of the Otago Labour Representation Committee. Since 1930 Mr Hudson has been an executive member of the Otago branch of the Printing Trades Union, including four terms as president, and is now a vice-president of the national union. Mr Hudson has been prominent in several local bodies and organisations, including the Caversham School Committee, the Caversham Ratepayers' Association, and the Disabled Servicemen's League. As he had polled the highest number of votes among the unsuccessful candidates in the municipal elections, he was appointed a member of the Dunedin City Council on the death of Mr J. W. Munro last year.