THE MAYORALTY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 110, 5 November 1926, Page 8

THE MAYORALTY

EARLY ANNOUNCEMENT

MR. NORWOOD MAY STAND AGAIN

"NOT INFLUENCED BY ACTION OF CIVIC LEAGUE."

The announcement by the Civic League that it had requested Councillor G. A. Troup to stand as the league candidate for the Mayoraltynext April and that Mr. Troup had agreed to the nomination has occasioned a good deal of surprise, for April is yet a long way ahead. In a brief statement to-day the Mayor indicated that it was by no means certain that he would not be a candidate. "The attitude of the Civic League," he said, "comes to me as a surprise. I was not, of course, a nominee of the Civic League in any case, and as far as its actions are concerned I have no comment to make. '' Those who have followed municipal work know that I have held office during what has been probably the most trying period during the history of the Wellington City Council. "I do not feel in any way that I must render an account of my services to the' Civic League, and I will give the matter of whether I phall stand again very careful consideration. "In that consideration I shall not be influenced in any way by what the Civic League has done." OTHER PEOPLE ALSO SURPRISED. Mr. G. Mitchell, who was one of those considered at the league's meeting, has stated: "I was not aware that my name had been before the Civil League and had no knowledge that any selection was to have been made." Councillor H. D. Bennett also expressed surprise. He had not been approached by the league as to whether he would be willing to be nominated as the league's candidate, he said, and, though he was aware that a number of personal friends wished that he should become a candidate, he had not given the matter consideration, as the elect ion was still so far ahead. Mr. T. Forsyth, M.P., states that he had definitely decided not to contest the Mayoralty next April, as his Parliamentary work, together with his private engagements, would not allow him sufficient time to devote to the work. Mr. Luckie said that he had not been consulted in any way, and that he had no knowledge that his name had been before the Civic League. He knew nothing whatever about the selection.