MAYORAL ELECTION

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 48, 25 February 1921, Page 8

MAYORAL ELECTION

TOO MANY CANDIDATES

CONFERENCES ON SELECTION

The problem created by the candidatures of five citizens for the Mayoralty still remains to be settled, but an important stop was decided upon yesterday. As was shown in correspondence which was published in The Post yesterday, the selection of a single candidate from among those who have been nominated from the ranks of the City, Council—Messrs. 0. J. B: Norwood, Len Mackenzie, and R. A. Wright—had become a question for negotiations The three candidates met yesterday, but did not themselves eliminate two of them. They agreed that representatives of their election committees should meet and try to come to an agreement, and this meeting will take place this afternoon. The conference, if it fails of a solution,. may refer the.question to a second conference, in which the Greater Wellington Electors' ' Association will be represented by three delegates, and by its president a 6 non-voting chairman—in fact, the conference which the association had previo\isly suggested should act.

This morning the President of the Electors' Association (Mr. Meadowcroft) communicated with thti Hon. T. W. Hislop, to see if his would fall in with the plan and submit his candidacy to review by the conference on the same terms as the others; but Mr. Hislop was not then able'to agree to leave such a decision" to any tribunal, and deferred a decision till he had consulted his committee.

. The Greater Wellington Electors' Association is very active in the preliminaries of the election,- being especially anxious to avoid .any splitting of votes. It it composed of representatives of the Town ■ Planning Association, and of all the Electors and Ratepayers' Associations within the bounds-of Greater Wellington. - ■■■■-..