CHOICE OF MR FINDLAY

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22153, 27 September 1943, Page 4

CHOICE OF MR FINDLAY

SERVICE TO COMMUNITY Hamilton’s new Member of Parliament, Mr F. Findlay, is a Scotsman by birth, and came to New Zealand 41 years ago. After returning from the last war, he commenced business on his own account in Hamilton in 1921, and has since devoted considerable time to the development of the town and district. He has always been a well-known and popular figure in the town. For 10 years he has served the town on the Hamilton Borough Council, and is now in his second term of office as deputy Mayor. Mr Findlay has been well known as the Government’s official viaitor to the Tokanui Mental Hospital and the Waikeria Borstal Institution for the past 15 years. He is now serving for a third term as chairman of the Waikato Hospital Board, of which he has been a member since 1933.

The new member is president of the Hamilton Lawn Tennis Club and is a well-known figure in sporting circles. At the New Zealand amateur athletic championships in 1920 he won the high jump, long jump and Cumberland wrestling titles, and at the jubilee sports held in Hamilton in 1935 won the pole vault. A member of the New Zealand Army athletic team, he won many trophies at army sports meetings. Mr Barren’s Term

Mr Barrell was first elected in 1935 when he defeated the sitting member, Sir Alexander Young. He was born in Rangiora in 1887 and after spending some time farming worked in the Railway Department, later qualifying as an engineer. He was a sergeant-major of volunteers at the age of 27 years. He resigned from the Railway Department to take a position with Messrs Booth MacDonald and Co., Ltd., for whom he managed branches at New Plymouth, Auckland and Invercargill. He then entered into business on his account in Hamilton.