TO OPPOSE MR. NASH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19585, 17 March 1938, Page 14

TO OPPOSE MR. NASH

NATIONAL CANDIDATE

MAYOR OF LOWER HUTT

(For Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day

Mi-. J. W. Andrews, Mayor of Lower Hult, announced his candidature yesterday as a Nationalist candidate for the Ilult seat at present occupied by the Hon. W. Nash, at the coining Parliamentary election. He has had a distinguished record on civic, commercial and war service. His acceptance of the candidature, though not a member of the National Party, is an event of political importance. Last week one of the largest and most influential deputations of men, representing all parts of the electorate that has ever interested itself in the Hutt seat, sought Mr. Andrews’ candidature. Yesterday afternoon the Horticultural Hall at Lower Hutt was filled to overflowing by a deputation of women of the electorate seeking his candidature. The speakers reported that women members of the party, who had made systematic approaches to electors of their own sex, had foufid overwhelming support for the Natiorfal Party. Housewives, alarmed by the increased cost of living, had expressed their political allegiance very definitely. A feature of yesterday’s deputation, to whom Mr. Andrews gave an acceptance of his candidature, was its repicsentation of all sections of the Hutt electorate.

THE WAIKATO SEAT

AIR. GOOSMAN SELECTED A ballot by members of the selection committee of the National Party in the Waikato electorate resulted in the selection of Mr. William Stanley Goosman, of Morrinsville, as the official National Party candidate for the Waikato seat at the general election.

The other two nominees were Messrs. A. W. Grant, of Te Aroha, and F. Lye, of Cambridge, over whom Mr. Goosman secured a clear majority. There were 210 votes cast by members of the selection committee.

Mr. Goosman was born at Auckland in 1890 and was educated at the Mangere School. His early life was mainly concerned with farming, and in 1917 he purchased his present farm at Waitoa. For the past 18 years Mr. Goosman has combined contracting and farming until to-day the firm of W. S. Goosman and Company, Limited, of which he was the founder and is now managing director, is one of the largest of its kind in New Zealand.

THE NAPIER SEAT MR. ORMOND SELECTED (Pur Press Association.) HASTINGS, last night. Mr. John D. Ormond, jun., has been chosen as the National candidate for the Napier seat at the General Election, subject to the approval of the Dominion executive of the party.