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Thirty-Six Tickets to Westminster AND ALL FIRST CLASS. With £ 1,000 a year basic and tax-free allowances at the rate of £ 750 per annum. All this and membership of what is still the best club in Europe. Here are their credentials; old faces and new ones. COUNTY BOROUGHS Aberdare A R PROBERT, MP for Aberdare since 1954 (by-election). Born 1909. Educated at Aberdare elementary and grammar schools. Is a local government officer. Joined the Labour Party in 1935. Member of the N A L GO and of the T & G W U. Secretary and treasurer of Aberdare Trades and Labour Council. Member of local employment and old age pensioners' welfare committees. Served R A F V R 1941-45. Married, two daughters. Cardiff North DONALD Box. New member. Born 1917. Educated St John's School, Pinner, and Harrow County School. Senior Partner in stockbroking firm. Has fought two campaigns in Newport and was subsequently adopted as prospective Conservative candidate for Cardiff North in January, 1959. Married. Cardiff South-East JAMES CALLAGHAN, M P for Cardiff South-East since 1950. M P for Cardiff South 1945-50. Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty 1950; Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport 1947-50; Parliamentary Private Secretary Dominions Office, 1945. Born 1912. Educated at elementary school and Portsmouth Northern Secondary School. Joined Labour Party 1931. Member of Inland Revenue Staff Federation since 1929; has been a branch secretary; member of Executive Committee and has been its assistant secretary. Joined Navy as seaman, later promoted to Lieutenant R N V R and served with East Indies Fleet in Ceylon. He was chairman of the Defence and Services Committee of the Parliamentary Labour Party 1945-47. Member of Parlia- mentary Committee of Labour Party since 1951. Married, two daughters, one son. Cardiff West GEORGE THOMAS, Cardiff West's M P since 1950. M P for Cardiff Central 1945-50. Educated Tonypandy Secondary School and University College, Southampton. Schoolmaster. Joined Labour Party 1925. Member of National Union of Teachers and one of their 'sponsored' candidates. Chairman of