REV CLYDE CARR WILL CONTEST TIMARU SEAT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18548, 23 August 1928, Page 9

REV CLYDE CARR WILL CONTEST TIMARU SEAT.

OBTAINS SELECTION AS LABOUR CANDIDATE.

The Rev Clyde Carr, a member of the Christchurch City Council and the North Canterbury Hospital Board, has been advised by the secretary of the Timaru Labour Representation Committee that he has been selected as the official Labour candidate for the Timaru seat at the coming general election. Mr F. R. Cooke, another member of the Christchurch City Council, was the only other candidate for Labour nomination for the seat. The

present member for Timaru is the Hon F. J. Rolieston, Minister of Justice and Attorney-Gen-eral. At the last general election, Mr P. C. Vinnell was the Labour candidate for Timaru, and in a straight-cut fight with Mr Rolieston he polled 3654 votes

against 6140 polled by Mr Rolieston.

At the election in 1922, Mr Rolieston defeated Mr Yinnell by only 288 votes in a straight-out contest. Mr Vinnell did not seek the Labour nomination for the coming election. Mr Rolieston and Mr Carr are the only candidates for the seat so far announced.

Mr Carr, who was bom in Auckland in 1886, has not previously been a candidate for Parliament. He has been a member of the City Council and the Hospital Board since 1923, and is chairman of the Reserves Committee of the City Council. He was ordained in 1915, and spent a year in Fiji and ten years in New Zealand in the active work of the ministry, but at present he is a Congregational minister without pastoral charge.