MEAT BOARD

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 10, 11 July 1936, Page 15

MEAT BOARD

ELEcfbRAL BbblES^

The returning officer for the election of the Meat. Board announces that he has received'the following' riomipationsv as' delegates to represent the various districts oh the electoral com-mittee:-1- " , •■■■■':'';. . •• I

Auckland district; E. S. Rails (Towai), H. E. Worsp (Whangarei). Three delegates required. Messrs. Rails and Worsp declared elected.

Gisborne district: F. S. Bowen (Gisborne), T. Le C. Powdrell (Wairoa). S. D. Reeves (Gisborne), P. J. R. Roberts (Gisborne). Three delegates required.

Hawke's Hay district: J. Barker (Hastings), C. R. Edgecombe (Waipukurau), L. Maclean (Hastings), H. B. Stuckey '(DaiShevrrke). Three delegates -required. ;;'..., ;/■--'

West Coast district: T.'Currie (Brunswick), "D."G. Gordon' (taihape), J. Knight (Feilding), L. B. Wall (Kairanga), J. "VVoqd (Stratford)'. Three delegates required.

; Wairarapa district:' ,J. • Mq. Jame.s (Mastertori)', M.'McLeod (Martinbprough): 'Two delegates required. Messrs. .James and McLeod declared elected.

Martinborough-Nelson-Westland district: H. J.Stace (Spring Creek). One delegate required. Mr. Stace declared elected.

North and Mid-Canterbury district: E. Hay (Pigeon Bay), A. N. Grigg (Ashburton), G. C. Warren (Darfield). ; Three delegates required. Messrs. Hay, Grigg, and Warren declared elected,.

South Canterbury district: J. Trotter (Fairlie). "One delegate required. Mr. Trotter declared elected.

Otago district: J. C. Begg (Dunedin), J. D. Revie (Heriot), D. J. Ross (Hillgrove). Three delegates required. Messrs. Begg, Revie, and Ross declared elected.

Southland district: W. J. A. McGregor (Ohai), E. K. Sim (Tuatapere), H. Smith (Waikaka Valley). Three delegates required. Messrs. McGregor, Sim, and Smith declared elected

Except in the case of Gisborne, Hawke's Bay, and West Coast districts, the number of nominations does not exceed the number of delegates required. A postal ballot is being conducted in the three districts named and the necessary ballot paper is being dispatched to each sheepowner owning not less" than 100 sheep in those districts. ;

The electoral committee elected from the above will assemble in Wellington on August 26 and 27 to consider the 14th annual report and statement of accounts of the Meat Board. As already announced, the only nominations for the two vacancies for producers' representatives on the board were Messrs. T. A. Duncan, Hunterville, and James Begg, Dunedin, the sitting members, and they were therefore re-elected unopposed.