FIVE LABOUR SEATS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25346, 20 November 1947, Page 8

FIVE LABOUR SEATS

TWO WOMEN NOW ON COUNCIL ONE SITTING MEMBER DEFEATED All except one of the Citizens’ Association sitting councillors retained their seats in the City Council election. The defeated candidate was Mr W. B. Owen. Labour increased its representation on the council by four seats, the new councillors including a formei Mayor. Mr R. M. M-cfarlane, M.P., and Mr J. Mathison, M.P The sole Labour representative on the last council, Mr G. Manning, filled second place to Mr J. L. Hay, who topped the poll for the second time, with 23.661 votes. Mr Manning gained 21.405. Three votes behind him was Mr L. G Amos, who was elected as a new Citizens’ Association candidate in 1944. There will be two women on the new council. Miss Mary McLean was fourth on the list, w ith 21.043 votes, and a Labour candidate. Mrs T. Green, was elected with 19,670 votes. The fifth Labour councillor is Mr T. H Butterfield, who obtained 18,907 votes. New’ Citizens’ Association councillors will be Mr P. S. Turnbull, who obtained 17.930 votes, and Mr W. J. Cowles, who polled 17.560. There is a difference of only 39 votes between Mr F. L. Brandt, the last candidate elected, end Mr L. Christie, who obtained most votes among those unsuccessful. The three candidates outside the two main organisations received little support. Mr F. Whiley (Independent) obtained more .votes than the two Communist candidates. Messrs J. G. Locke and H. G. A. Ostler The present figures indicate that the three candidates wiP not lose their deposits, because they secured more than one-eighth of the votes polled by the lowest successful candidate. Polling was higher than at the previous election, the first four candidates gaining more than 20 000 votes each. Details of the polling follow, an asterisk denoting sitting members, and the partv designations being: C. (Citizens’ Association). L. (Labour Party), Comm. (Communist Party), I. (Independent) : ♦J. L. Hay (C.) .. 23,661 *G. Manning (L.) .. 21,405 •L. G. Amos (C.) .. 21,402 ♦Mary McLean (C.) .. 21.043 •W. P Glue (C.) .. 19.743 Mrs T. Green (L.) .. 19.670 ♦J. N. Clarke (C.) .. 19,582 W. S. Mac Gibbon (C.) 19,384 ♦A. R. Guthrey (C.) .. 19.291 ♦J. E. Tait (C.) .. 19,252 ♦R. G Brown (C.) .. 19,129 •C. D. W. L. Sheppard (C.) 19.027 T. H. Butterfield (L.) .. 18 907 P. S. Turnbull (C.) .. 17,930 •G. D. Griffiths (C.) .. 17.644 R. M. Macfarlane (L.) 17.621 W J Cowles (C.) .. 17,560 J. Mathison (L.) .. 17.500 •F. L. Brandt (C.) .. 17,469 (Elected.) L. Christie (L.) .. 17,430 W. B. Owen (C.) .. 17.258 A. N. Stone (C.) .. 17,121 J. E. Jones (L.) .. 17.038 M. F. O’Brien (C.) .. 17.019 FH. Dephoff (C.) .. 16.875 Daphne Claudia Fox (L.) .. -. 16,130 G. W. Parmenter (C.) 16.116 N. R. Forbes (L) .. 16.098 J. Shankland (L.) .. 15.614 A. B. Grant (L.) .. 15.475 J. G. Power (L.) .. 15,456 Margaret Cunningham Mackwell (L.) .. 15.336 J. Sturrock (L.) .. 15.306 R. Jones (L.) .. 15.107 H. H. McCaw (L.) .. 14.931 F. G. Hayes (L.) .. 14.914 F. Kelso <L.) .. 14,913 J. L. Laby (L.) .. 13.769 F. Whiley (I.) .. 4.361 J. G. Locke (Comm.) 3,503 H. A. Ostler (Comm.) 3.389 Informal .. 1,027 CAT! HMFNT BOARDS NORTH CANTERBURY Four seats in the Christchurch metropolitan district of the North Canterbury Catchment Board were retained by Citizens’ candidates. Votes were polled by candidates in the metropolitan area as follows: *H. B. Anderson .. 19.934 *G. Jobberns .. 18.326 ♦W. Machin .. 18.742 ♦L. W. McCaskill .. 18.547 (Elected.) J. E. Colechin .. 3.453 D. A. Mason .. 14.897 J. G. Power .. 14.451 J. Shankland .. 14.799 A. J. Smith .. 13.834 F Whiley .. 4,018 At 1 o’clock this morning returns from two city polling booths had yet to be collected. Results from other districts were:— Waimairi and Paparua Counties Combined: W. F. McArthur .. 2,563 (Elected.) P. J. Alley .. 1,234 J. W. Green 921 Kowhai. Ashley, and Oxford District: E. M. Gibson .. 710 F. S. Gorton .. 629 SOUTH CANTERBURY Borough: W. H. Hall .. 4291 (Elected.) V. A. Verity .. .. 2700 Mackenzie County: W B. Trotter .. .. 516 (Elected.) D. W. M. Burnett .. 257