UNITEDS’ CANDIDATES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 445, 29 August 1928, Page 1

UNITEDS’ CANDIDATES

CHOSEN FOR THAMES AND ROTORUA SERVICE TO LOCAL BODIES United Party candidates for the Thames and Rotorua seats have been chosen. Mr. Cecil H. Clinkard will stand for Rotorua, and Mr. E. McGregor is the party’s nominee for Thames. Mr. Clinkard is very well-known in the Hot Lake district, where he was the first Mayor of Rotqrua, a position which he held for four years. He was born in North Auckland at Makarau, where he spent many years in the kauri timber industry. Mr. Clinkard lias given 21 years to public service as chairman of school committees, county councillor, road board member, an elected member of the Tauranga Harbour Board, and he is at present a member of the Rotorua Borough Council.

Mr. E. McGregor, of Morrinsville, who is standing for the Thames seat, was born in Gisborne in 1886, and joined the Customs Department there and served in the department for 14 years and then qualified as a solicitor and accountant. In 1917 he commenced the practice of his profession in Morrinsville, and was chairman of the Morrinsville Town Board. He has been chairman of the school committee, and at present is president of the Morrinsville Chamber of Commerce.