GENERAL ELECTION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 157, 13 June 1931, Page 7

GENERAL ELECTION

THE TIMARU SEAT There appears to be a possibility of a four-cornered contest in Tiniaru at the General Election. According to a Timaru message to the Christchurch "Star," it is authoritatively stated that Mr. W. Angland, ex-Mayor of Timaru, will contest the Timaru seat as an Independent or an Inde pendent Liberal. The other content ants are Labour (Mr. Clyde Carr, M.P.), Reform (Mr. H. N. Armstrong), and United (candidate to be selected). The choice of a United Party candidate appears to lie between Mr. Herbert Hall and Mr. A. Kennedy, the Deputy-Mayor. Over eighty represen | tative citizens attended a meeting of United Party supporters on Tuesday evening to set up a committee to sellect a candidate. The greatest en thusiasm was manifest, and the meeting was strongly of the opinion that Mr. Forbes was the leader of the hour and that all should get behind him to enable him to carry out the work of national reconstruction. It was decided to send a message of good wishes and congratualtion to Mr. Forbes on his patriotic endeavours to place the country's finances on a sound footing. It was unanimously decided to form a branch of the United Party organ isation in Timaru: The chairman (Mr. J. T. Hunt) pointed out that Timaru had always been a Liberal constituency, although captured by Labour three years ago, when the United Party did not contest the seat Mr. R. B. Dalley, Canterbury organiser for the United Party, addressed the meeting.