THE THAMES SEAT

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 56, Issue 4064, 24 June 1938, Page 4

THE THAMES SEAT

THE NATIONAL CANDIDATE. MR W. A. CLARK’S CAREER. The selected National candidate for the Thames seat to oppose Mr James Thorn (Labour), Mr William Alexander Clark is a son of the late Mr J. D. Clark, of Little River Canterbury, who came to New Zealand in 1865 from Falkirk, Scotland. Mr Clark followed farming for a few years, and then joined a business firm in Christchurch. Working his way up, he finally became a traveller for the firm, and for six years travelled regularly from Auckland to the Bluff. After marriage Mr Clark decided to return to farming, and when the Elstow Estate was cut up he secured 300 acres, which he has farmed successfully for the last 20 years. Two years ago he retired from active farming and took up his residence in Te Aroha. Mr Clark has served on several local bodies, including the Piakc County Council and the Elstow Drainage Board. He was for 12 years president of the Elstow branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, and ever since coming to the district has been actively associated with the Thames Valley A., P. and H. Association, first as secretary and for the last four years as president. Mr Clark at the recent Te Aroha municipal elections, after rejecting an invitation to stand as Mayor, topped the poll as a member of the Borough Council. He is known as a man who takes a keen interest in all he undertakes, and has won the complete confidence of those who have been associated with him in connection with the

show and other branches of public life. His wide circle of friends in and about Te Aroha will wish him well and follow his campaign with the utmost interest.