LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 175, 20 April 1929, Page 10

LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS

NOMINATIONS CLOSE FULL WELLINGTON LIST Nominations of candidates for the Mayoralty, City Council, Harbour Board, and Hospital Board closed at noon yestreday with the returning officer (Mr. R. Tait). They are as follow MAYORALTY. Nash, Walter. Troup, George Alexander. CITY COUNCIL. Atkinson, William. Bennett, Henry Dargavillc. Bennett, William Henry. Black, Adam. Blake, Alexander Charles. Boyd. Frederick Walter. Brindle, Thomas. Bromley, Walter. Burn, Benjamin George Henry. Burns, John. Butler, Peter Michael. Chapman, Charles Henry. Duncan, William. Forsyth, Thomas. Gaudin, William James. Hildreth, William Thomas. Hislop, Thomas Charles Atkinson. Huggins, Herbert Augustus Robert. Lees, Henry. Luckie, Martin Maxwell Fleming. McKeen, Robert. McVilly, Richard William. Meadowcroft, Frank. Mitchell, George. . Morpeth, Charlton Douglas. Parlane, Andrew. Read, John. Semple, Robert. Thew, Matthew William. Thorn, Janies. Thornton, Edward Onslow. Tucker, John. Walsh, Michael. Whippy, George William. Wright, Robert Alexander. There are 35 nominations for the 15 vacancies. HARBOUR BOARD. Bennett, Henry Dargaville. Chapman, Charles Henry. Johnson, John Oldham. Macindoe, Francis Arthur. Mitchell, George. Norwood, Charles John Boyd. Roberts, James. Semple. Robert ' There are eight nominations for the four vacancies. HOSPITAL BOARD. Andrews, William, Accrington. Begg, Robert CampbelL Benge, Onslow Hillier. Bennett, Francis. Black, Adam. Butler, Peter Michael. ■“ Campbell, Duncan. Castle, Frederick. Chapman, Emily May. Cole, Walter. Egley, Bertram. Fraser, Janet Gill, Thomas Henry. Glover, John. Helliwell, Joseph Henry. Hennessey, Laurence. Johnston, John. ' : Luke, Charles Manley. McVicar, Annie. Moore, Eliza Jane, Moran, Jeannette. Petherick, George Jennings. . Preston, Jane Katherine. Read, John. . Sadd, William Henry. Semple, Margaret Snow, Sarah Ellen Oliver. Thew, Matthew William. Tucker, John. Van Staveren, Herman. Whippy, George William. Young, Margaret. There are 32 nominations for the 14 vacancies. ■ / ' ■ SIX ISSUES. Municipal electors who are ratepayers will on May 1 be asked to vote on six issues, viz.: (1) The Mayoralty; (2) City Council; (3) Harbour Board; (4) Hospital Board; (5) the new loan for tramway works, hew viaduct at Kelburn, and a library at Wellington East; and (6)- the plebiscite as to a Sunday charge for admission to the Zoo.

Municipal electors who are not ratepayers vote on all issues except the loan issues.

THE LABOUR CAMPAIGN ADDRESS BY MR. McKEEN, M.P.

Councillor R. McKeen. M.P., candidate for the city council, addressed a meeting at Post Office Square yesterday afternoon. In critising the street-widen-ing policy of past councils, Mr. McKeen stated they had made blunder after blunder at a distinct loss to the ratepayers of the city. He cited the three big widening schemes which had been undertaken during the past two years;—Mercer Street, Farish and Bond Streets, and Lower Taranaki Street. These had cost, in payment of compensation to property owners alone, the huge sum of £105.552. No city, declared Mr. McKeen, could afford to carry out a comprehensive scheme of street widening at such a cost. Within the next few years, many large and important works must be undertaken in the planning of the city, particularly the provision of suitable arteries to cope with the everincreasing traffic, but a more businesslike scheme must be adopted than that which we had sadly experienced. The candidate. stated that, in his opinion, a large portion of the money which had been paid in compensation for street widening purposes could yet be recovered from surrounding property owners—many of whom had benefited to the extent of thousands of pounds—by the council using their powers under the Town Planning Act of 1926. The Town Planning Act provided that one-half of the betterment resulting from improvement made by the expenditure of city funds shall be repaid to the city. Surely, continued the candidate, there could be no' earthly excuse for any council not taking advantage of those powers. Why had this not been done? There could only bo one answer—and that was, the lack of foresight and business ability of the council as a whole. A Labour council, said tho candidate, whilst providin' for all urgent needs from a transport and town-planning point of view, would carefully watch over the interests of the citizens, so that the city would receive all the benefits it was entitled to. , -MIRAMAR ROADS. At the close of Mr. Bromley’s meeting at Miramar on Thursday, the question was asked: “If elected will you be in favour of letting the Miramar roads for grazing?” “No !” replied Mr. Bromley. “With all the pot-holes it would be a source of danger for the cattle.” UNEMPLOYMENT SUBSIDY. Mr. Bromley, at Miramar on Thursday evening, expressed surprise at the Mayor at Lyall Bay claiming credit for himself and the council for the securing of the subsidy for unemployment. He traced the history of the events which led up to the granting of the subsidy, stating that it had been much mare diiHruJt ta aa<

the Mayor to accept the subsidy than it had been to get the Government to grant it. Further, now that the subsidy had been granted, and in spite of the further fact that the City Treasury had a surplus from previous unemployment loans, after several weeks the total number found employment, accepting the Mayor’s own figures, was about twenty, A Labour Council, given the same opportunities, said Mr. Bromley, could have had at least all the married men in employment at the present time. UNEMPLOYMENT AND CHARITABLE AID. Speaking at a large meeting of dectors at Garrett Street last night, Mr. P. M. Butler, Labour candidate for the Council and Hospital Board, said that the hospital levy of £30,000 which the ratepayers had to meet, could be greatly reduced, and the sufferings of the unemployed minimised if a progressive and businesslike policy were adopted by the Council. He said that the number of unemployed had a big effect on the expenditure of the Social Welfare Committee in charitable aid to relieve the distress which was the concomitant of unemployment. I£ the work was made available which was waiting to be done, and a decent wage paid for doing it, it would mean relief for the workers and an easement for the ratepayers. If work were not made available, food, clothing and rents had'to be provided by the Social Welfare Committee, and this expense brought no return. It was uneconomic, almost idiotic, to spend money which impoverished the providers and disgraced the receivers. £30,000, if made available for work which could bring lasting benefit to the city, would be better spent than £30.000 spent on rations, clothes and rent, without return. „ HOSPITAL MATTERS. Speaking at Green Street last night, Mr. W. H. Sadd, Labour candidate for the Hospital Board, in commenting on the upkeep of the various institutions under the control of the Hospital Board, put the following questions to those present :—“What are you going to do about it —continue to protest and pay, or, on the other hand, pay and feel satisfied you are gettin gthe best value for your money?” He assured them the only possible way to secure an up-to-date and efficient service was to elect a sufficient number of the Labour Party’s candidates to the Hospital Board, and they would at least endeavour to improve the administration of the various institutions. AN INDEPENDENT. Mr. M. W. Thew, of Brooklyn, a resident of Wellington for fifty years, announces his candidature for the*City Council and the Hospital Board at the coming elections. Advocating a progressive development policy, combined with prudent administration, Mr. Thew is opposed to any increase being made in the rates. Mr. Thew will address the electors in the Baptist School, Brooklyn, on Wednesday, April 24, at 8 p.m. NOMINATIONS ELSEWHERE RICHMOND. Dominion Speciai Service. Nelson, April 19. Nominations for the Richmond Borough Council closed to-day with two candidates for the Mayoralty, fourteen for the six seats on the council, and two for one Harbour Board representative. Last election, so little interest was evine- - ed that no candidate stood for the Mayoralty, and only three for the council, necessitating a further election. The candidates are:— Mayoralty: James Hunt (sitting), Henry Warren Kelly (a former resident of Wellington). ‘ Council :• Robert Atkinson, N. B. Brown, James, Connell, • Edward Cross, Ethelbert Croucher, Percy S. Haycock, Walter Hill, George Kidd, Francis Lusty, Herbert Newport, Henry Charles Schroder, Edwin Smallbone, Walter Thorn, Carlos Bertram Webby. Harbour Board: James Hunt, Hen*v W. Kelly (sitting). BLENHEIM By Telegraph.—Press Association. K Blenheim, April 19. Mr. Malcolm McKenzie has been returned unopposed as Mayor of Blenheim. Eleven nominations for the nine council seats were received. Three men and three ladies are candidates for the three Wairau Hospital Board vacancies. WAIMATE. Waimate, April 19. Public endorsement of the progressive policy of the Mayor, Mr. George Dash, during his last two terms of office was given in his re-election unopposed today. Of 13 councillors nominated for nine seats, nine are supporters of the Mayoral policy and five of these were members of the last council. ■ INVERCARGILL. Invercargill, April 18. The Mayoral nominationsn are: —Job Miller, the present Mayor, and John Daniel Campbell, who has been a councillor for four years. There are sixteen nominations for twelve seats in the council. r GORE. Gore, April 18. For the Gore Mayoralty, the nominations are Messrs. A. A. Mac Gibbon, W. D. Shelton, D. L. Poppelwell, and A. T. Newman. There are sixteen candidates , offering for twelve seats on the Borough . Council, three nominees for one seat on the Southland Power Board, and two for a seat on the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Mn A. H. Aitken was returned unopposed for the Bluff Harbour Board. TIMARU. Timaru, April 18. There are three nominations for the Timaru Mayoralty, William Angland, A. Lawrence Gee, and P. C. Vinnell. For the council there are eleven nominations for nine seats. STRATFORD. Stratford, April 19. The nominations for the Mayoralty are: J. W. McMillan (sitting Mayor), N. B. Fletcher, and C. Moore (councillors), and C. R. Finnerty.. There are 13 nominatiojis for the nine seats on the council. HAWERA. • Hawera, April 19. Mr. E. A. Pacey was returned unoj> posed as Mayor of Hawera. For the council there are 11 nominees for the nine seats. The,following were returned unopposed :—South Taranaki Power Board: L. A. Bone. E. A. Pacey. Hawera Hospital Board: F. Gillanders, W. G. Simpson. Patea Harbour Board: S. Blake. A poll will be taken on the question of changing the h.ilf-holiday from Wednesday to Saturday. CAMBRIDGE. Cambridge, April IS. The nominations for the local body elections closed here at noon to-day. The Mayoralty nominations are: T. F. Richards (sitting) and C. S. Priestly. LABOUR CANDIDATES ‘ MEETINGS Three meetings will be held in port of the Labour candidates for the Mayoralty, City Council, Hospital Board, and Harbour Board on Monday, at Northland,'Kilbirnie, and Lyall Bay. The Northland meeting will be held in St. Anne’s'Hall at 7.30,. and the speakers will lie Messrs. W. Nash (Mayors! candidate). R. McKeen, M.P., J.. Read, M. Walsh, L. Hennessey, T. Brindle, and G. W. Whippy. The Kilbirnie meeting will be held in the Kilbirnie Hall, and will be addressed by Messrs. R. Semple, M P W. Atkinson. H. Lees, J. Glover, J O Johnson, Mrs. Fraser, Mrs. Semple (chair), and Mr. W. Nash (Labour candidate for the Mayoralty). The third meeting for the evening has .been arranged for the Katea Hall. Lyall Bay, and the speakers announced are Messrs. C. H. Chapman. M.P.. J. Roberts. W. H. Sadd. A. Black. Mrs. Moran. Mrs. Ghnnwnn. and Mr. R. Semple, M.P. On Tuesday evening, meetings will be held ns follow; —Hataitai, Realm Hall! Njxaio, Masonic Hall; Island Bay, Masonic Hall. At the Hataitai meeting Mr. R. Semple, M.P., will speak mainly on the proposed Mt. Victoria tunnel. . ... At noon on Tuesday a meeting will be held irf Bond Street, during the lunch hour, with a view to giving citizens an opportunity of judging for themselves the merits or demerits of the Bond StreetFarish Street scheme.