PAHIATUA SEAT.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13086, 21 October 1935, Page 5

PAHIATUA SEAT.

THE DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE.

MEETING IN PAHIATUA. Mr Edward Anteliff, of I)a 11 nevirke, Democrat organiser for the Paliiat.ua electorate, was a, visitor to Paliiatua to-day to arrange for Mr D. S. McGhie’s initial meeting here to-morrow night. The candidate will open his campaign in Pahfatua at a later date. —• To-morrow’s meeting in the Mayfair Hall is Jiur: 1 ly to get in touch with local Democrat suppoitors and is not for tin 1 purpose of expounding the party's policy Mr McGHIE. Mr David Scott McGhie, of Wellington, who lias been selected to contest the Pahiatua seat in the interests of the Democrat party, arrives in Pahiatua to-morrow. He proposes to commence his campaign early next week. Mr McGhie, who hails from Scotland. belongs to a well-known Lanarkshire family which for generations has been engaged in farming, and he is. to use his own words when speaking to a representative of the ‘■News,” “No stranger to the plough.” He was educated at the Glasgow High School, and has always taken a very keen interest in politics. He wa s connected with the Liberal-Unionist Party in England and was frequently called upon as an auxiliary speaker in their interests during election campaigns. In 1920 Mr McGhie came to New Zealand, taking up a dairy farm at Tabaka, South Island. While in Takaka betook a prominent part in local affairs. being a member of the Takaka County Council. President of the Farmers’ Union, and chairman of the School Committee. As a farmer he was particularly interested in herd testing, and was instrumental in getting the first herd testing group formed in the Takaka district, having arranged with the dairy company manager to make the tests, while he himself, undertook the writing up of the sheets from the manager’s reports.

Mr McGhie subsequently moved to Wellington ill order to further the educational interests of his family. Up till quite recently he had been Dominion representative for one of the largest firms in the building industry-. He is at. present in business in the city- on his own account and has twice visited America, on business.

Mr McGhie is a returned soldier, having served in the South African War and also the Great War, having held the rank of Lieutenant and act-ing-Captain in the Royal Engineers ‘‘lt is my- hope and desire, to carryout the campaign in a clean and gentlemanly manner.” he saicU “I shall only be dealing with parties and not persons.”