LABOUR CANDIDATE FOR MAYORALTY
Mr. -J. Sayegh Chosen At Auckland By Telegraph—l’ress Association. Auckland, January 27. It was announced at the close of a special meeting of delegates to the Auckland Labour Representation Coms mittee to-night that Mr. J. Sayegh will be the official Labour candidate for t>he mayoralty of Auckland at the local body elections in May. The other nominee was the Hon. B. Martin, M.L.C. At the municipal elections held in 1935 Mr. Sayegh unsuccessfully contested the mayoralty against the presentmayor, Sir Ernest Davis. The 230 delegates who were present at the meeting were representative of 25,000 people, including 58 unions, and 35 branches of the New Zealand Labour Party affiliated with the Auckland Labour Representation Committee. This year the Labour Party will nominate a full ticket for each of the major local bodies in Auckland. It is stated that at the ballot to-night delegates were confronted with the names of 51 nominees for the 21 seats on the Auckland City Council, 61 for 12 seats on the Auckland Electric Power Board, 25 for the five seats on the Auckland Hospital Board, and 21 for the four seats on the Auckland Harbour Board. \
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 105, 28 January 1938, Page 12
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