CITY BY-ELECTION

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1922, Page 7

CITY BY-ELECTION

CONSIDERED BY CIVIC LEAGUE SELECTING A CANDIDATE. rl?he Wellington Civic Leaguo has coin sideiedi tba matter of the vacancy th< City Council caused by the death^ ofi tho latti Councillor Underwood!, At first th* league thought that,1 if the highest on the list o£ deieated candidates at the '-isty election (Mrs Preeton) had been, no mnated, a by election, costing about£ £350, would have been avoided, and the mcney thus saved have been devoted towards the relief of unemployment \b it has been announced that at< least aftother nomination will bo made*, a meeting of the league was held yester? day, at %vhich the matter of the vacancy was fuither consideied The names ofi several likely candidates were mention.-, ed, and it was decided! to consult thesel persons as to whethei they would stand or not, and whethei they would be pre* paved to submit themselves to a Selec tion Committee of the league, which: ! was lepresentdtive of. the centre of thes city and many of the, .surroundmg districts Some of the individuals con^ ceined have intimated their willingness to adopt this course [t was resolved that a- special meeting of the league should be held shortly, ami that additional lepresentatives of the vanous municipal electors' associa-i tions should bo invited, to attend This meeting will make the selection of a) candidate, and it is believed that by, this means one candidate -will be set forward as the citizens' candidate fo* tho by election

'The league still expresses much regret that it was not found possible to securo the return of one candidate unopposed, seeing that the term of office will b^ but for" a very short period.