WELLINGTON'S MAYORALTY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 8

WELLINGTON'S MAYORALTY.

.DIFFERENCE IN LABOUR RANKS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. A straight-out contest for the Wellington Mayoralty is likely between Mr J. P Luke the.present Mayor, and Mr Robert Fletcher, MJ>. A Labour v eandidate, Mr Chapman, is in the field. His candidature came as a surprise to many in the labour ranks. Mr David McLaren and Mr R. H. Hindmarsh, M:P., hive declined _to stand on this occasion for any mmjicipal position, but the nominatjon of Mr Chapman for the highest office was felt to be somewhat of. a forlorn hoJ*-,The4atest development shqWs that Mr, Chapman was not nominated by any trade union, but by the ; House wives' b?™'otm™* Sounded 'ounded Mr L. M A. Reardon, secretary .of the » nd Labour Council, dropped a ofth? \f£*»'?*#** Meeting of the Labour Representation Committed by announcmg that at the next me eug he would mov;e that the question of whether not Mr Chapman should be Sf Vf the seat of the -SW vlw *° the uni ™- 'In thai tt r^ fact * i* iß > et *y &m. ;™*,^f n Li J bou r .candidate will not be . prominent feature in the' poMing, assumjng that he persists in, his^^dnatib™