Gervan McMillan

With the help of the Taranaki Scholarship, he could afford to study medicine at the University of Otago, from where he graduated MB ChB in 1929.

[citation needed] In 1940 he ran for the position of Labour Party leader, being nominated by Arnold Nordmeyer, a friend from Kurow and a supporter of John A. Lee.

Clyde Carr also ran, but the winner to replace Savage was his deputy, Peter Fraser.

He twice unsuccessfully stood for the Dunedin mayoralty; he was beaten by Andrew Allen and Donald Charles Cameron in 1941 and 1944, respectively.

[1] Two years after his death, his widow became a Member of Parliament for North Dunedin, also representing the Labour Party.