LABOUR ELIMINATED

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 198, 19 May 1941, Page 9

LABOUR ELIMINATED

Citizens’ Candidates Win AH City Council Seats SENSATIONAL LANDSLIDE

In one of the biggest landslides in the history of municipal politics in Wellington the Citizens’ ticket captured all the 15 seats on the city council and unseated all six sitting'Labour councillors.

New members of the council, all from the Citizens’ ticket, are: Mrs. Knox Gilmer, and Messrs. B. J. Todd, R. H. Nimmo, F. W. Furkert. C. M. Bowden, AV. H. Stevens and J. D. Sievwright. The defeated councillors, all Labour, were: Mr. R. McKeen, M.P.. who was Labour’s mayoral candidate, Messrs. C. H. Chapman, M.P., T. Brindle, M.L.C., P. M. Butler and A. Black, and Mrs. R. Semple, wife of the Minister of National Service. Messrs. McKeen, Chapman and Brindle had served long terms on the council. Following are details of the polling, an asterisk indicating sitting councillor :— “Wright, K. A. (C.) 19,468 ♦Appleton. W. (C.) 19,038 ♦Fraser, M. (C.l 18,293 Gilmer, Mrs. Knox (C.) 18,248 ♦Luckie, M. M. F. (C.) 18,150 “Gaudin. W. J. (C.) 17,933 ♦Duncan. W. (C.) 17.599 ♦McKenzie, L. S. W. (C.) 17,266 ♦Maealister, R. L. (C.) 17,225 Todd, B. J. (0.) 17,024 Nimmo, R. H. (C.) 16,863 Furkert, F. W. (C.) 16,664 Bowden, C. M. (C.) 16,416 Stevens, W. H. (C.) 15,055 Sievwright, J. D. (C.) 14,152 (The above are elected.) ♦McKeen, R., M.P. (L.) 12,517 ♦Chapman. C. H., M.P. (L. I . . 11,697 ♦Brindle, Hon. T.. M.L.C. (L.) . 10,779 ♦Butler, P. M. (L.) 10.706 ♦Black, A. (L.) 10.383 ♦Semple, Mrs. R. (L.) 10,379 Stewart, Mrs. C. C. S., M.P. (L.) 9,947 Holland, R. (L.) 9,717 Atkinson, AV. (L.) 9.643 Parlane, A. (L.) 9,586 Read, J. (L.) 9,307 Collins, J. H. (L.) 9,234 Fleming, J. (L.) 8,820 Aspen, H. V. (L.) 8,329 Hansen, P. A. (L.) 8,158 Austin, Dr. L. G. (Ind.) 3.607 Tcece, C. S. (Ind.) 3,230 Carman, A. H. (Ind.) 2,238 Campbell, D. AV. (Ind.) 2,096 Galbraith, A. (Com.) 2,007 Birchfield, Mrs. C. A. (Com.) . 1,731 Wood, W. G. (Com.) 1,713 Probyn, Mrs. J. H. (Ind.) .... 1,081

AFTER THE CONTEST

Candidates Address The Electors

, Atldres,sing elwlui's in lite Coiivcrl Uhtnnbcr of the Town Hall after the election, Hie mayor, Jir. Hislop, said: ”1. want to thank yon for the great honour you have done me in re-electing me mayor and also, now that the light, is over, to wish good health to Mr. MeKeen and Mrs. MeKeen.” On Ids suggestion three cheers were given for Mr. and Mrs. MeKeen. “On an occasion such as this, I can only thank all those who have worked for me and my team, who have voted and expressed confidence in us,” Mr. Hislop continued. "During my next term I will do the same things on the same principles as J have done in the past, and will devote all my energy to serving the people of Wellington, and through them the people of New Zealand, and to supporting the people of Britain who are standing the brunt, of the light for freedom —that is what we must keep ahead of us til! the lime. - ’ Mr. Hislop .specially thanked his wife for tile assistance she had given him in his campaign. The mayoress called for three cheers for Mrs. MeKeen, who. she said, had always been a great friend of hers. Mr. MeKeen thanked those who had worked for him during the campaign and those who voted for him. He extended to the mayor his congratulations on the magnificent victory he had achieved on this occasion. “I have been too long at this game,” said Mr. McKeon, “to worry in the slightest about win or lose. We in Hie Labour movement get so used to that sort of thing that we take it as 'it conies.' Mr. Hislops Iviiii o| ollico had come i

at a period which was an unenviable one, and he and the mayoress would have to work very bard to keep up with tlie duties that they would be called on to undertake. Mr. MeKeen said. Ho knew they would be able to carry those duties out. ami he hoped the mayor would have a most successful I erm. Mr. MeKeen closed by culling for three cheers for the mayor and mayoress.