LOCAL GOVERNING BODIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 274, 25 November 1897, Page 6

LOCAL GOVERNING BODIES.

MAYORAL ELECTIONS.

The able and eminently satisfactory manner in which Mr P. Dignan has carried out the duties of Mayor of Auckland during the period since he took office on the death of the late Mr A. Boardman have been fittingly marked by his re-election to that office unopposed. Mr Dignan was nominated by Messrs Alfred Kidd and H. C. Cboyce. Mr J. C. Macky, the present Mayor of Devonport, was the only candidate nominated for the office, and he was therefore duly re-elected Mayor for the ensuing year.

Mr C. E. Button has once again been reelected unopposed to the position of Mayor of Birkenhead.

The Mayor of Newton, Mr J. W. Shackel ford, was re-elected without opposition.

In Parnell borough two nominations were received. Mr Joseph Thornes (the present Mayor) and Mr NT William Pollard. A poll of the burgesses of Parnell, for the election of one of the candidates, will be held at the Borough Council Chambers on Wednesday, 24th inst., between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Mr Wm. Dey was re-elected, unopposed, as Mayor of Hamilton for the fifth time in succession.

Mr J. M. Laxon was elected Mayor of Newmarket unopposed. Mr A. Chalmers has been re-elected unopposed Mayor of Lyttelton, Mr R. C. Bishop Mayor of New Brighton, Mr T. N. Horsley Mayor of Linwood, and Mr J. M. Douglas Mayor of Woolston.

The directors of the Union *S.S. Company recommend the payment of a dividend at the rate of 2£ per cent, for the six months ending December, making, with the interim dividend, 5 per cent, for the year. They further recommend a bonus of one per cent, from the insurance fund, making in all 6 per cent.

At the annual meeting of the Mosgiel Woollen Factory Company held at Dunedin on Nov. 16,Mr A. J. Burns, in moving the adoption of the report recommending- a dividend of eight per cent., after explaining various items in the balance-sheet, said the limits of the Bank of England could be reached, and the limit of the woollen industry was reached now, and it would be well for capitalists to look at the two sides of their penny before they invited the public to invest in more woollen mills until the population gets a little bigger. The competition was being felt now, and it would mean that the weakest must go to the wall. He thought the shareholders need not fear anything from competition as they were in a position to stand it. Messrs E. B. Cargill and H. F. Hardy, the retiring directors were reelected.