NELSON NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1932, Page 4

NELSON NEWS

"-WWMEA COUNTY

THE--PENDING- ELECTIONS

' (From Our Own Correspondent.) » ' i NELSON, 27th April. The for seats on the Waiinea County Council, and'for county council representatives on the Nelson and ."Motueka Harbour Boards, on th,e Nelson Hospital Board, and on the Waimea Elec- * trie Power Board, closed to day. The nominations for the ridings, each of ■which, has one councillor, are: Whangamoa, John Colder, Stoke, George Manson, Leslie A Higgins; Dove dile,»' Arthur A. Eenyon, Motueka, Horatio Everett; Appleby, Loo. M Pal mer (sitting member), and Samuel E O'Hara; Wai-iti, Heibert Everett and Robert- Freeman; Wangapeka, Frederick Gibbs (sittiilg member) and Ernest H. Jones.; Moutere, Richard Teece (sitting member) and Karl D. Epgeis. For th?ee members to lepresen*1 the county on the Hospital Board five nominations were, received—H G. Berryman, Herbert Everett, Frederick W. Gibbs, A. A. Kenyon, and^Henry Tunnichffe. Th& xeauired, number (thiee) were nominated to represent the county on the JHarbour Board. They aie Funk W. iGreenslade, George Manson, and Charles fr. Prfce. The latter two are sitting members.

Tor fi,ve seats on the Motueka Harbour Board nine nominations were received— P. B jJGalder, John Dicker, D. L. Drum-Tnond.-Horatio' Everett, Jl. D. Greenwood, 1). Honing, A. E. Lmdnp, C. H. McKay, and Arthur Rollings The death of Captain George Williams at Ins home tn Stepneyville, Port Nelson, at th 6 age of 68 jears, removes one who for many years has been a well known figure at Port Nelson. For a numbers of veais lie was a seaman and joined the Nelson pilot staff. Some years later ihe put chased the ketch Felicity with which, as oh ncr skipper, he "fiaded between Nelton, tbe Sounds, and the Bays. After di posing of thff Felicity he had a term .isliorc befoie buying the ketch Comet, in •ninth he traded between the small pcti aiound Tasman Bay. Some years .ip;o lie gave up the sea for shore work He leaves a widow, one daughter, and eight {sons The funeral of tho late Fiederick W. Fmey was largely attended by the publir and representatives of bodies with ■which he had been-associated, including the City Council, Tiotting ClubV and Jockey Club, and the Faimeis' Union. Archdeacon J. R. Dart conducted the gra\eside service The bearers tvere !Me«brs. r W. Francois, P. V.wghan, "J Hinkleyj M McCormick, P. Wilson, and H McKegnov