South Yorkshire Times September 5, 1959

Wentworth Candidate: A Choice of Two

When the selection committee of the Dearne Valley Divisional Labour Party meet at Wath, on Sunday, September 13, to choose a candidate for the Dearne Valley Parliamentary Division, they will have before them two names.

These are Mr. Edwin Wainwright of Wombwell and Mr, Donald Higgins, M.A., PL.D., of Wath.

These two were recommended to and approved by the Divisional Management Committee at a meeting at Church House, Wath, on Saturday. Whoever is chosen will take the place of the Rt. Hon. Wilfred Paling of Doncaster, who, at the age of 76, has intimated that he does not intend to stand at the next General Election.

Mr. Paling has represented the Division (formerly Wentworth) in Parliament since 1933.

The meeting at Wath was presided over by the Division Chairman County Coun. J. W. Mellor, J.P., of Wombwell, and, as Mr. Wainwright was one of the nominees the secretarial duties were temporarily taken over by Mr. J. T. Anson, Labour Party Regional secretary.

Mr. Wainwright has been Agent to Mr. Paling since 1951,

Mr. Wainwright is a member of the Miners’ National Executive and since 1934 has been an official of Darfield Main, branch of the N.U.M. He was elected branch delegate in 1939 and secretary in 1952. He has been a member of Wombwell Urban Council since 1939.

Mr. Higgins, a member of Wath Urban Council, is an assistant lecturer at Barnsley College of Technology, is a Cambridge M.A., and Ph.D. of Sheffield University. During the war he spent four years abroad as an N.C.O. and later as an officer in the Intelligence Corps.