LOCAL BODY POLLS
CITIZENS’ ASSOCIATION CANDIDATES RIVER TRUST, HARBOUR AND CATCHMENT BOARDS The nominations of the Christchurch Citizens’ Association for election to the Lyttelton Harbour Board, the Waimakariri River Trust, and the newly-constituted North Canterbury Catchment Board were announced last evening. Three of the four nominees for the Harbour Board and all four of the nominees for the River Trust are sitting members. The candidates for the Catchment Board include Dr. G. Jobberns, Professor of Geography at Canterbury University College, and Mr L. W. McCaskill, lecturer in biology at the Christchurch Training College. Both have high scientific qualifications and both have been keen advocates of national measures for soil conservation and the control of erosion. Mr McCaskill is chairman of the soil conservation committee of the Canterbury Progress League. Messrs H. B. Anderson and W. Machin, both members of the Waimakariri River Trust, a body which is expected to have a special interest in the operations of the new board, are the remaining nominees. For the four city seats on the Lyttelton Harbour Board the association has nominated Messrs R. Browning, F. W. Freeman, and W. S. Mac Gibbon, all sitting members, and Mr V. E. Hamilton, a well-known Christchurch businessman and chairman of the Tunnel Road Committee. The association’s candidates for the River Trust, all sitting members, are Messrs H. B. Anderson, C. T. Aschman, F. W. Freeman, and W. Machin.
Mr A. M. Carpenter, of Fernside, has consented to nomination as a candidate for the Canterbury Catchment Board, under the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council, as the representative of the combined districts of Rangiora and Eyre counties. Mr Carpenter has been a member of the Ashley River Trust for several years, and is president of the North Canterbury provincial executive of the Farmers’ Union
Mr M. Spencer Bower, of Swannanoa, has been approached by the Eyre County Council to be a nominee for the North Canterbury Catchment Board.
LOCAL BODY POLLS
Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24226, 6 April 1944, Page 4
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