ELECTION INQUIRY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 114, 17 May 1933, Page 3

ELECTION INQUIRY.

CHRISTCHURCH REQUEST. FOUR CANDIDATES MENTIONED. (By Telegraph. —Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. The names of four candidates at the recent municipal elections are mentioned by the Citizens' Association in seeking an inquiry by the Christchurch City Council into their qualifications to be on the district electors' roll. The candidates are Mise Mabel Howard, Mr. E. J. Howard, M.P.. the Rev. J. K. Archer, and Mr. G. T. Thurston. All four were nominated by the Labour party. Misu Howard and Messrs. Thureton and Archer secured election to the City Council, and Mr. Howard was elected to the Harbour Board.

Miss Howard was entered upon the supplementary district electors' roll with residential qualification in her own right at I!J4, Gloucester Street (the Trades Hall). The association maintains that she was not entitled to this residential qualification, and that the Labour Representation Committee being not on the roll itself was not entitled to nominate her as ite representative. Mr. Howard was enrolled as having residential qualification in his own right at 19, Travers Street, but it is contended by the association that he was not entitled to this qualification, since his residence is elsewhere outside the city area.

Mr. Archer is on the roll as a ratepayer in his own right at 118, Tennyson Street, and was nominated by the Sydenham Baptist Church Trust. This qualification is being challenged, as Mr. Archer now lives outside the city. Mr. Thurston is entered with qualification of an occupier in his own right at 104, Gloucester Street (the Trades Hall). He lives outside the city, and his qualification to be listed as" an occupier at the Trades Hall is being questioned.

Shico the association's protest was made both Mies Howard and Mr. Howard have secured qualifications as ratepayers and have applied for and been granted new enrolments.

If tho association's protest is sustained complicated results may follow, as the election was under the proportional representation system and the whole count would have to be amended.