WOMAN NOMINATED.
AUCKLAND MAYORALTY. (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, March 12 ; A surprise announcement "concerning the city Mayoralty was made to-day, when Mrs Lindsay Cooke said she had consented to be nominated as a candidate. Mrs Cooks (who said she was better known in the South Island as Mrs Garmson) was born in Dublin in 1862 and came to New Zealand in 1879. She said she had been a. Liberal-Labour supporter all her life, and had been nssociated with Mr Ballance and Mr Seddon. She had stood for Thames as an Independent Liberal. In the last few years she has been working on behalf of relief worker organisations in the city, and it was a group of Grey Lynn women that asked her to stand for the Mayoralty. Mrs Cooke is the Auckland vice-president of the Douglas Social Credit Movement. - . The only other candidate so tar is Mr Ernest Davis, the nominee of the Citizens' Association Committee. The Labour Party candidate has not yec been chosen.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 129, 13 March 1935, Page 2
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