LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS
MINISTER’S VIEW ON EARLIER POLLS (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 11. The Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr S. W. Smith) said today that he would give a sympathetic hearing to the Municipal Association’s request that local body elections be held earlier than November. A remit urging the Government to amend the Local Elections and Polls Act to allow the holding of municipal elections earlier than November was passed at the association’s conference at Rotorua last week. The remit was sponsored by the Mayor of Auckland (Mr T. W. M. Ashby), who said that November elections were too close to Christmas, and tended to delay the work of local bodies.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28224, 12 March 1957, Page 9
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