SMALL LISTS OF CANDIDATES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22388, 29 April 1938, Page 12

SMALL LISTS OF CANDIDATES

The City Elections

CONTEST LIMITED

TO TWO PARTIES

Nominations Closed

The smallest number of candidates for many years will go to the poll in the municipal elections on May 11. Nominations for the Mayoralty, the Christchurch City Council, the North Canterbury "Hospital Board, and the Lyttelton Harbour Board closed with the returning officer, the Town Clerk (Mr J. S. Neville) yesterday, there being very few additions to the list of candidates already published. Nominations also closed yesterday for seats on the Waimakariri River Trust, and an election will not be necessary in the central subdivision and in the Eyre subdivision.

The issue in % the city elections will, generally, be a straight-out choice of the policies offered by the Christchurch Citizens’ Association'and the Labour Party. Dr. John Guthrie (Citizens’ Association) and Mr R. M. Macfarlane (Labour) are the only candidates for the Mayoralty, and each organisation has nominated a full “ticket” for the 16 seats on the City Council, the nine on the Hospital Board, and the four on the Harbour Board. There is only one Independent candidate in the three elections. In the Waimakariri River Trust election the four candidates elected unopposed for the central subdivision are Citizens’ Association nominees. Candidates in Fast Elections The following table gives a comparison of the number of candidates in the Mayoralty, City Council. Hospital Board, and Harbour Board elections since 1931:

' ’ 1938.1935.1933.1931. Mayoralty .. 22 22 City Council .. 33 44 43 33 Hospital Board .. 18 21 18 17 Harbour Board .. 8 10 8 9 The lists of candidates for the municipal elections and for the Waimaka,riri River Trust are as follows, Citizens' Association nominees being indicated by (C) and Labour Party nominees by (*L),.and sitting members being indicated by an asterisk:—

Mayoralty John Guthrie (C.). • _■, Robert Mafeking Macfarlane (L.) Christchurch City Council * (16 seats)

♦Hugh Thomas Dyke Acland* (C.) Berthold Ahlfeld (I.). •Ernest Herbert Andrews (C.). •Thomas Andrews (C.). •John Septimus Barnett (L.). John Walton Beanland (C.). John David Carey (L.). Harold Ernest Denton (L.). Harold Ernest Fenton (L.). William Scoles Grigg (C.). •William Hayward (C.). Henry Frederick Herbert (C.). William Patrick Hickey (L.). Mabel Bowden Howard (L.). Herbert Clarence Hurst CC.). John Edward Jones (L.). Reginald Jones (L.). Frederick Kelso •(L.). Frederick Laws (C.). •Melville Edwin Lyons (C.). •William Smith Mac Gibbon (C.). •George Manning (L.). •Thomas Milliken (C.). Thomas Nuttall (L.). •Edward Parlane (L.). Frederick Michael Robson* (L.). •Alfred Charles Sandston (C,). •Frank Driessen Sargent (C.). Arthur Henry Scales (L.). Ernest Alan Sharp (L.). George Daniel Simpson (C.). Frank George Thomas (L.). Frank Sturmer Wilding (C.).

North Canterbury Hospital Board

(9 seats) •Hugh Thomas Dyke Acland (C.). •John Septimus Barnett (L.). •Jane Anne Bean (C.). Herbert Chapman (C.). Harold Ernest Denton (L.). Ernest Edridge (C.). . •Philip Stanley Foster (C.). •Teresa Green (L.). Roby Earl Hope-Pearson (L.). John James Hurley (C.). Louisa Emily Macfarlane (L.). •Jessie Elizabeth Mackay (C.). Agnes Mathison (L.). Lucy Charlotte McCaw CL.). Thomas Nuttall (L.). •Isabella Parlane (L.). Leonard Gordon Keith Steven (C.) Frank Thompson (C.).

Lyttelton Harbour Board (4 seats.) •Harvey Maitland Chrystall (C.). •Henry Holland (C.). •Edwin' John Howard (L.). Robert Mafeking Macfarlane (L.). Terence Henderson McCombs (L.) •Charles Ogilvie (C.). Frank Driessen Sargent (C.). George Thomas Thurston (L.).

Waimakarirl River Trust (Central, 4 seats) ♦Hugh Boscawen Anderson.' Christopher Thomas Aschman, ♦Frederick Willie Freeman. ♦George Gould. (Elected unopposed.) (East, one seat) Thomas Olivant Newnham. ♦William Pritchard Spencer. (West, one seat) ♦William Francis McArthur. John Wood McGlinchy_ (Cust, one seat) ♦Howell Edward Evans. Robert Francis Joyce. (Eyre, one seat) ♦Richard Orme Dixon. (Elected unopposed.)

Borough and County Elections,

To-day nominations will' close for the, following local body elections in districts near Christchurch: Riccarton Mayoralty and Borough Council, Sumner Mayoralty and Borough Council, New Brighton Mayoralty and Borough Council, Lyttelton Mayoralty, and Borough Council, Heathcote County Council, Waimairi County Council, and Mount Herbert County Council. Nominations additional to those already listed in “The Press” for these elections have been received by returning officers as follows: — . New Brighton Borough Council — Messrs A. B. Grant, J. T. Harpur, J. Kelly, H. R. Macdonald, L." M. Moor, J. O’Connell, W. E. Wilkins and Mrs E. J. Williams. -

•Lyttelton Mayoralty—Mr W. W. Toy. Lyttelton Borough Council —Messrs W, T. Foster 4 , G. Halliday, W. T. Lindsay, and A. R. Mutton. Heathcote County Council—Messrs J. H, Moore 4 (Bromley riding), and E. R. Adcock (Hillsborough riding). Waimairi County Council—Messrs C. C. Harrow (Wairarapa riding) and F. S, Scott 4 (Fendalton riding). Waimairi-Riccarton division of the