LOCAL ELECTIONS.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17740, 17 April 1923, Page 8

LOCAL ELECTIONS.

nominations close to-day. Nominations for the Mayoralty, for the Citv Council, and for the city representation on the Lyttelton Harbour Board and the North Canterbury Hospital Board close .with the Town Clerk at noon to-day. Up to yesterday afternoon the following nominations were received: Mayoralty. Cr J A. Flesher. —Cr. Flesher's nominators were Messrs H. D. Acland, Ct T. Booth, J. A. .Frostick, H. Holland, C. 0. M. Ollivier, and W. H. Winsor, the last-named being one of the Independent members ot the City Couneil, and Chairman of the Works Committee. City Council. Messrs C. W. Hervey, W. E, Leadley, 0. W. B. Andorson, MeGrogor B. Wrieht, A. Williams, D. Rowse, J. E. Cooper, John Anderson, 0. P. Agar, A MeKellar. J. W. Beanland, R. Hampton, T. M. Charters, E. H. Andrews, and W. H. Winsor. Hospital Board. Di Fenwiek, Messrs W. E. Leadley, ■H J. Otiey, E. A. M. Roberts, A. T. Smith. . Harbour Board. Dr. Thacker, Messrs H. Holland, T. 11. llarker, and Geo. Scott. Mr E. E. Langley, a former City Councillor, has been added to the Labour Party's ticket for seats on the City Council, taking the place of Mr D. G. Sullivan, M.P., who is now- the Party's nominee for the City Mayoralty. Labour opens"its Municipal Election Campaign to-night at 8 o'clock in the Trades Hall. IN OTHEft PLACES. (press association xkubgbaks.) Wellington.—-The following have beon nominated for the Mayoralty: Messrs P. Eraser, Len McKenzie, R. A. Wright. Thero are thirty-five nominations for fifteen seats on the Council. . Dunedin.—-There are three candidates for the City Mayoralty, Councillors Tapley, Larnach, and Hayward. There is no Labour nominee. There were twenty-five nominations for twelve councillors' seats. Of these six are Labour •> candidates. One. woman, Mrs Leech, stands as an Independent. Hamilton. —Mr J. R. JTow, the sitting Mayor, is the only nomination for the Mayoralty. _• Nelson.—Mr W. Lock was returned unopposed for the Nelson Mayoralty. MastertonMr 0. Pragnell has been re-elected unopposed as Mayor. Auckland—The Mayor of Auckland (Mr J. H. Gunson), and the Mayor of Newmarket (Mr Ponaldson) have been re-elected unopposed. There will be contests for the Mayoralties of Mount Eden, Mount Albert, and Avondale. Thirty-nine candidate have been nominated for the 21 seats on the Auckland City Council. _ Of these 16 are sitting members. Labour haa a tl (lisbornel—Mr George "Wil&sh, who has been Mayor for the past four yeas and Councillor Fred R. jaall, have been nominated for "tlx© jMa.yprfl.lty. THE DUTY OF VOTING. At last night's meeting of the Council of Christian Congregations the Rev. O i j). Perry moved that the Council, should' urge people. to record their votes at the forthcoming municipal elections, stating that it was the duty, of Christian people to take an interest in everything that was for the good! of men. One of the disappointments of democracy was the failure of people to appreciate the privileges that had been gained for them by so much strenuous efiort. If their names were on the roil it waa their duty as christians to flee that they went to tte poll and recorded their votes for the men whom, they considered the ifaest. The motion was oaxried, after a number of speakers had given strong support to it. There was one dissentient, Mr W. T. Jones, who objected to the motion on various religious grounds, and expressed the that it was the duty of Christians to "keep themselves separate" from .worldly affairs.