NOTTINGHAM'S NEW CANDIDATE.
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Motor Industry and Parliamentary Representation.
IT APPEARS NOT unreasonable to anticipate that after the next general election the ranks of those holding seats in Parliament who may be claimed to possess a direct association with the motor industry, will be reinforced by a notable addition. Nottingham, under the Redistribution scheme, is to receive an additional iu-ember, making four in all, to which upon the basis of population the city ha % been long entitled, and for the new central rnnstitueney, carved out of existing divisi-ens and made up of wards in and contiguous to the Market Pla.ce, Mr. A. R. Atkey, who has been long a member of the Corporation and has been responsible for much useful public work, is -to he nominated.
The decision, which was arrived at at a recent meeting of the Central Unionist Association, under the presidency of Mr. B. S. Wright, has , occasioned general satisfaction. It was understood that, the Labour party desired to contest the seat against Mr. Atkey, but the rival candidate will be Mr. Alderman E. Huntsman, leader' of the Liberal party in the City Council, a local solicitor and vice-chair. man of the Water Committee. The fight promises to be keen..
Atkey, who is head of the motor and cycle firm -of A. R. Atkey and Co., Nottingham, has strong Claims upon the city in which he, was born in 1807. As a junior he entered the service of the Nottingham Corporation Water Committee, and rose to the post of an assistant engineer.
Since 1908-he -has been a representative upon the Council of Br..dge Ward and appropriately he holds the effisas of Chairman of the Water Committee, one of the principal trading -concerns of the corporation, acquired many years ago from a private company. He took a leading part in formulating a scheme, which has -since received Parliamentary sanction, under which sthe corp-oration has undertaken toimprove the navigation of the Trent by widening and deepening the river between Nottingham and Newark, and his addition to the parliamentary rgnks, whilst preventing possibilities of doing much useful work incidentally in relation to the motor industry with which he has now been long prominently connected, would undoubted13 -strengthen the number of men in !the House Who may be said to possess much needed technical qualifications.