SELECTION OPPOSED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 135, 21 March 1939, Page 3

SELECTION OPPOSED.

VACANCY ON HOSPITAL BOARD. I . :.y. ’* ■•". . DEMAND FOR BY-ELECTION. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, March 20. Following the death of Mrs Snow, the City Council recently appointed Councillor Gaudin to fill the resulting vacancy on the Hospital Board. * A deputation from the Labour Representation Committee waited on the Mayor to-day to protest against this action,* which was described as an injustice and unsportsmanlike. It \\ r as pointed out that the usual practice Was to appoint the next on_the list of unsuccessful candidates, ’ ivhereas Mr Gaijdin was not even a candidate at the last election. The next three candidates were Labour nominees, of whom the first, Mr Holland, had withdrawn ill favour of the second, Mrs Collins. The Mayor said the law ivasi that the City Council •should elect a person within two months of the vacancy. Its action was free and unfettered, there being lio stipulation about the next candidate on the list. It ivas difficult to alter the position now, but if a requisition for a special meeting of" the Council were put in he would call one. Notice of motion to call a special meeting of the Council to rescind Mr Gaudin’S' appointment and to move for a by-election has'been put in.