TO AVOID A BY-ELECTION
It will be regrettable if the expense of a by-election has to be incurred to fill the City Council vacancy. The most sensible course and manifestly the fairest would be to nominate the candidate who filled the sixteenth place at the election of the full council only a .few weeks ago. There is no delicate balancing of power which would be disturbed "by such an arrangement, though the late Councillor Meadowcroft stood as an independent and the sixteenth candidate, Mr. R. L. Macalister, had the support of the Civic League and the Ratepayers' Association. If, unfortunately, this proposal should be unacceptable to the various organisations of municipal electors another way out may be taken. Mr. Macalister, who undoubtedly has a prior claim to nomination, has generously offered to stand aside if the three principal organisations can agree in the choice of an independent candidate. We hope that the bodies concerned will consider the position in the spirit shown by Mr. Macalister.'
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 132, 7 June 1933, Page 8
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165TO AVOID A BY-ELECTION Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 132, 7 June 1933, Page 8
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