VARIED OCCUPATIONS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18879, 3 December 1935, Page 6

VARIED OCCUPATIONS

MEN IN PARLIAMENT TWO MINISTERS AND A DOCTOR A remarkable variety of occupations are included among the members of the new Parliament. The Labor Party traverses a wide field of activity, there being 12 organisation secretaries, eight farmers, three solicitors, two ministers of religion, two storekeepers, two booksellers, two bakers, a doctor, a school teacher, a teacher of engineering, a journalist, a railway engineer, a manufacturer, a mining engineer, a farm implement trader, an agent, an auctioneer, a commission agent, an unemployment relief organiser, a herbalist, a miner, a painter, a coal merchant, a contractor, a builder, a bootmaker, a grocer and a fish shop proprietor. The 18 European members of the National Party comprise nine farmers, three solicitors, a company manager, a grain and seed merchant, a draper, a merchant, a railway servant and a veterinary surgeon.

Among the five European Independents there are a solicitor, a master printer, a sign painter, a merchant and a milk vendor. The sole Country Party member is a farmer who was formerly a surveyor.

In each case the occupation given is that followed by the candidate before entering Parliament.

The new Parliament also includes several very young men, the ages of four of them being 28 years, 29 years, 29 years and 34 years, respectively.