LABOUR’S CHOICE

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1934, Page 8

LABOUR’S CHOICE

RANGITIKEI ELECTORATE. SIR JAMES WILSON’S GRANDSON. Something in the nature of a political sensation has developed in the Rangitikei electorate with the announcement that Mr. Ormond Wilson, sqp of Mr. Hamish Wilson, Bulls, and grandson of the late Sir James Wilson, one of the leaders of the old Conservative Party in New Zealand, has been selected as the official Labour candidate for the Rangitikei seat at next general election. Mr. Ormond Wilson, who is a farmer by occupation, has not long returned from Oxford University, where he came under the influence of the modern movement in the famous old English centre of learning. It is perhaps not altogether surprising to hear of such changes these days, when it is remembered that the leader of the British Conservative Party, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, finds himself opposed on the other side of the House of Commons by his son Oliver, who is one of the rising hopes of the Labour Party. The situation in Rangitikei will certainly be intriguing. The present member, Mr. A. Stewart, was returned at last election by only a small majority from Mr. J. T. Hogan, former member for Wanganui. There is a strong Labour element in the constituency, which includes Wanganui East at one end and Taihape at the other extreme.