LOCAL BODY AFFAIRS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 144, 21 June 1938, Page 5

LOCAL BODY AFFAIRS

LAWYER ADMINISTRATORS

Members of the legal profession occupy a prominent place in local body administration in New Zealand and this fact is brought under attention in the latest issue of the "New Zealand Law Journal" which states that the following practitioners, at the elections last month, were elected to the Mayoralty of their respective cities or towns:—

Messrs. T. C. A. Hislop (Wellington), T. Jordan (Masterton), J. W. Card (Featherston), E. Gibbard (Dannevirke), S. K. Siddells (Pahiatua), C. F. Atmore (Otaki), T. L. Seddon (Feilding), B. S. Barry (Whakatane), H. T. Morton (Te Kuiti), B. Keys (Te Puke), H. S. Anderson (Mount Albert),

I. J. • Goldstine (One-tree Hill), F. A. Kitchingham (Greymouth), C. T. Smith (Blenheim), and W. G. Tweedy (Timaru).

Among the elected councillors are Messrs. W. B. Fee, J. J. Sullivan, Dr. R. G. McElroy, Messrs. A. St. C. Brown, and J. W. Kealy, and Miss Ellen Melville (Auckland City Council); Messrs. M. Luckie and R. L. Macalister (Wellington City Council), J. Ottley (Whakatane), N. C. Snedden (Mount Eden), iW. R. Garrard (Cambridge), G. Tremaine (Palmerston North City Council), C. N. Armstrong (Wanganui City Council), E. P. Hay (Lower Hutt), A. H. Macandrew (Eastbourne), G. D. Wilson (Masterton), and P. S. Page (Eketahuna).

Other members of the profession 'elected to local bodies are Messrs. W. L,. Fitzherbert (Wellington Harbour Board), T. C. Webster (Auckland Harbour Board), A. L. Spence and A. J. Moody (Auckland Hospital Board), A. L. Mason (Putaruru Town Board), L. Peace (Kaitaia Town Board), J. B. Yaldwyn (Hutt County Council). R. W. Bothamley (Makara Cownty Council), and W. E. Bate (Hawke's Bay Hospital Board).