EARLY VOTING URGED

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 185, 3 May 1933, Page 11

EARLY VOTING URGED

Civic Elections To-day LIST OF CANDIDATES Council, Boards, and Loan THIS EVENING’S RESULTS To-day the municipal electors of Wellington are being asked to elect members of the— Wellington City Council, Wellington Hospital Board, and Wellington Harbour Board. Those who are returned will hold oilice for the next two years. For the City Council 15 members are required; for the Hospital Board 14, and for the Harbour Board 4. Electors must, on each separate ballot paper, cross out the names of candidates for whom they do not wish to vote. Should they attempt to record these votes in any other way they may invalidate the ballot paper. Electors may vote for a smaller number of candidates than is required, but not a larger number, so before handing in their papers voters should count I the names they have left unscored. The ballot-papers are of distinctive colours. That for the City Council is buff (pale brown), for the Hospital Board pink, and for the Harbour Board green. Loan Diversion Proposal. In addition to the election of the three local bodies referred to ratepayers, as distinct from municipal electors will be asked to vote for a loan diversion (in two parts) for waterworks which are considered essential j in the interest and good health of the . community. ( The proposed loans are actually the ( unspent portion of the big waterworks e loan of 1920, but though the money i was raised and is lying at the bank ou ] lived deposit, the council decided that j the ratepayers should bo given the op- c portunity of deciding whether or not this money should be diverted to pre- < seut-day waterworks needs. These t

are: An auxiliary supply from artesia bores at Gear Island to be pumped int the AVainui main under pressure, am the construction of larger service resei volrs and extended reticulation o water and drainage services in th suburbs. The 70 polling places (201 booths) will open at 9 a.m., and ivill elose at 7 p.m. sharp. As there is no Mayoral election oi Ibis occasion—Air. T. C. A. I-lisloi having been returned unopposed—then are not likely to be any definite results until after 9 p.m. At the polling places the staffs will first of all deal with thi City Council ballot papers. When that count is finished they will take the Hospital Board, then the Harboui Board, and, dually, the loan issue. It is anticipated that the first returns of council elections will begin to come in about 8 p.m. Air. J. Norrie, Returning Officer, expresses the hope that electors will take the earliest opportunity of recording their votes, so as to preclude as far as possible the risk of congestion at the booths before closing time. The candidates are as follow, sitting members being marked with an asterisk City Council.

'The thirty-four candidates nominated ; for (he fifteen seats ou the City Council are as follow:— “Appleton, Will. Burras, James. “Bennett. William Henry. Black. Adam. Brindle. Thomas. “Burns. John. Butler, Peter Alichael. “Chapman. Charles Henry. Collins, James Henry. Cummings. Herbert Leonard. “Dunean. William. ♦Forsyth, Timinas. Calloway. Malcolm Scott. “(Jaiidin. William James.

I fay, Cary 11 James. “Holm. Sydney. Hoskins, Paul Donnellan. “Huggins, Herbert Augustus Robert. Letbaby. Charles Frederick. Buckie. Martin Maxwell Fleming. Miiealistcr. Robert Lachlan, •AlcKeen. Robert. McKenzie. Leonard Wilinor. “Meadowcroft. Frank. Niitusch, Stanley. Pnrlane. Andrew. Ranson. James 'William. Robertson. John. “Semple. Robert. Sievwrigbt. James Dickson. Tucker, John. *Wallace. John Napier. WaDh, Afieh.-ml. Webb. Richard Henry. Hospital Beard. The following are the twenty-nine nominations for fourteen city seats on the Wellington Hospital Board:— Austin, Leslie Gordon. Burras, James. Bass. Frederick Harold. “Begg. Robert Campbell. “Castle. Frederick. “Chapman. Emilio May. “Cole, Walter. Dean. Mary. “Fraser, Janet. Fnrkert. Frederick William. Gibson. Lucy, “Glover, John. “Helliweii. Joseph Henry. Hunter. Clifford Lorric. Kano, Amy Grace. Lcniston. Eileen Marie. •McVicnr, Annie. Dal ham. May Ellen. “Pelherick. George Jennings. “Preston. Jane Kef ferine. Ranson. James William. “Riddell. John Cheyne. Sudd. William Henry. Semple. Margaret. Snow. Snrali Ellen Olive, Treadwell, Charles Archibald Lawrance. Whittaker. James Henry. Williams. Gladys Phyllis. “Wilson, Donald Macdonald. Harbour Board. The nine nominees for the four city seats on the Harbour Board are as follow: — “Bennett, Henry Dnrgaville. Chapman. Charles Henry. Darroch. Robert. Fraser. Peter. “Mucindoc. Francis Arthur. Nitnmo, Robert Hamilton. “Norwood. Charles John Boyd. Semple, Robert. Walsh. Michael. Borough Elections. There are also Mayoral find Council elections to-day in connection with the Lower Hutt. Petonc. Upper Hutt and Eastbourne boroughs.