COMING GENERAL ELECTION
CANDIDATES FOR NEW EDEN SEAT (By Wire.—Special to News.) Auckland, Last Night. The new Eden .-seat will be contested at the general election by Mr. O. E. Burton, who announces he will stand as a Christian Socialist. Mr. V. H. Potter, M.P. for Roskili, has also announced his candidature for the seat. Mr. Burton is a comparatively young man. He served in the Great War, leaving New Zealand in the medical corps with the Third Reinforcements. He saw service in the Gallipoli and Egyptian campaigns and later on _ the western front in France and Belgium, where he was transferred to the infantry. In 1918 he received a commission. He also hold the Military Medal and the French Medaille d’Honneur. Since the war Mr. Burton has written an official history of the Auckland Regiment and a brief history of the New Zealanders’ part in the _ war. He has also become well known in Auckland as a controversialist, particularly as an anti-militarist and prohibitionist. He has been a school teacher for the last three years. ,
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1928, Page 9
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