CITY ELECTIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 146, 17 December 1937, Page 10

CITY ELECTIONS

LABOUR CANDIDATES

MR. CHAPMAN FOR MAYORALTY

Nominations for the selection of candidates to contest the Wellington; Mayoralty, City Council, and/ Harbour. Board and- Hospital Board election* were considered' at a, meeting- of th« Labour Representation Committee this. week. ■•. ■ ■ : ■ ■ „, Mr.; C. H. Chapman, M.P.,!'was th« only nomination for the office of Mayor, Mr. H. McKeen, M.P.,. who had beea nominated, having- withdrawn. Mr. Chapman has taken a prominent part in the Labour, movement over : a:.long , period and has previously ■ contested the Mayoralty. Born in London m 1876, he came to, New, Zealand in 1905, subsequently linking up with theparty. He has been a Labour member <j£;th« City Council for 14 years, and has also served on the Hospital, and. Harbour Boards. He has represented.Welling* ton-North in Parliament-since. 1928. There were 31 nominations-for th« City Council,' the, ballot resulting a» follows:—Messrs. K. Baxter, A. Black, T. Brindle, W. M.. Broadley, P. M. Butler, C. H. Chapman, J. H. ; Collins, C. J. Hay, R. McKeen, A. Parlance J. Read, Mrs. M. Semple, Messrs. H.-,* Swindell, J^ Tucker, and M. Walsh, Forty-three nominations- for tn« Hospital Board were received, thej** lot resulting in the following, beinf. selected:-Messrs. A. W. Croskery,. J. Glover,'R. Holland, G. Ward.^Jß. Newton, W, N. Pharazyn.M Walsh,, J Tucker, Mesdames M. Semple, fa..*■. Snow, E. Chapman, R. Collins,.and I* Gibson. ' ■ . ~ ■ ,_. There were eight nominations I<*; the Harbour. Board, the following can. didates being chosen: The . &. Brindle, M.L.C., Messrs.. C. H, Cha^ man, M.P., R. McKeen, M.P., and-* Roberts. ' ''.