LABOUR PARTY
CANDIDATES ENDORSED By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, June 13. The National Executive of the New Zealand Labour Party has announces that the following candidates who have received the endorsement oi tliParty organisations in the electorates concerned have been chosen to contest seats at the general election. Mr R. Coulter, M.P.. for Hauraki. Mr T. E. Trask, Egmont. Mr F. L. Frost. New Plymouth. Mr Coulter is the sitting member for Waikato, but because of the redistribution of seats more than half of his electorate has been transferred to the new Hauraki electorate. Mr Coulter has consented to stand following representations made by electors ana branches of the Labour Party in Hauraki. Mr Frost contested the New Plymouth seat in the last election and in a field of five candidates was beaten by 831 votes. Formerly vicar of Taradale. Hawke’s Bay. Mr Frost is now employed in the broadcasting service at Auckland. Mr Trask is president of the Eltham Branch of the Labour Party and a well-known farmer in that district.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21062, 14 June 1938, Page 5
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