NEW MEMBERS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 27 November 1908, Page 3

NEW MEMBERS.

MR GEORGE FORBES

Mr George Forbes, who has won the Hurunui seat, was born in Lyttelton in 1869, and was educated at the borough school and at the Christchurch Boys' High School. He went into business until the Cheviot Estate was acquired by the Government, and was then successful in securing one of the sections at the ballot. He has made his home on Cheviot ever since, and has been successful as a farmer. His first connection with politics was in ■ rendering assistance- to Mr George Laurens'on when that gentleman first won the Lyttelton seat. He contested the Hurunui seat in 1902 and was defeated. Mr Forbes was a member of the Land Commission in 1905, and thus had an opportunity to visit every part of New Zealand and study the practical working of the land laws. He will strengthen the band of " land' reformers" in the House of Representatives. He had been closely connected with local politics in the Cheviot district, and has also been prominent in athletics. He has represented Canterbury on several occasions on the football'field, and was captain of the Canterbury team" that defeated Otago in 1892. He has represented the Union Rowing Club at regattas, and has figured in other branches of athletics.