MR. APPLETON MAYOR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 125, 29 May 1944, Page 7

MR. APPLETON MAYOR

MOST DEFINITE WIN

MARGIN OF 9595 VOTES

Mr. Will Appleton (Citizens) had a most definite win in the Mayoral contest, with a vote of 29,884, giving him a margin of 9595 over Mr. James Roberts, president of the New Zealand Labour Party, who polled 20,289 votes. That Mr. Apple ton would be elected was evident early in the evening, and even the block Labour vote at the wharf and the Labour majorities at the Trades Hall and some of the outer polling places did not promise any effective overhauling, for his polling place margins were too consistently wide for a few large Labour majorities to overcome. With each half-hour of counting, Mr. Appleton's position improved, and out of 112 polling places he had majorities in 85. The number of informal votes, 660, was large for a straight-out issue between, two candidates. The results of the two previous elections were: 1941, T. C. A. Hislop (C), 19,851; R. McKeen, M.P. (L.), 10,926; majority for Hislop, 8925.' 1938, Hislop (C), 24,368; C. H. Chapman, M.P. (L.), 18,198; majority for Hislop, 6170. Mr. Appleton also topped the Harbour Board poll, with 29,349 votes; Mr. Roberts polled 20,463 votes for the Harbour Board, so that there was a close parallel between them on that issue as well. . Mr. Appleton's clear win in the Mayoralty showed the way the whole city elections were to go, with the return of Citizens' ticket condidates to all the seats at the tables of the City Council, Hospital Board, and Harbour Board.

Applcton. Roberts. Basin Reserve 133 223 Britomart Street 143 • 215 Luxford Street 300 387 Harrison' Street 149 ' • 68 Ohlro Road . 578 410 Brooklj-n School 175 147 Washington Avenuo .. 124 75 Arc- Street Hall 17(i 288 Aro Street School 228 280 Brandon Street 329 41 Clyde Quay School ... 358 214 Mount Cook School .. 117 98 Cambridge Terrace ... 233 322 Town Hall H3« • »]S Customhouse Quay ... 225 94 Dixon Street 381 202 Featherston Street (Liberty Corner) 191 100 Featherston Street (Marqueo) 313 ' 112 Ghuzneo Street 294 271 Hankey Street 151 107 Tasmnn Street 112 109 Kent Terrace (Oddfellows' Hall) 959 579 Kent Terrace (Schoolroom) 41!) 295 ,155 Lambton Quay ... ■ 491 177 Lamblon Quay (Hotel Cecil) 310 35!) Stout Street 2S0 3 77 Taranalii Street 55 181 The Terrace (Schoolroom) 597 113 The Terrace (To Aro School) 30 27 Vivian Street (St. John's Hall) 85 108 Vivian Street (Trades Hall) 279 963 Webb Street 314 322 Wharf 54 595 Willis Street Clinic ... 493 292 Clifton Terrace 137 2S Day's Bay 84 3 Dufferln Street 197 120 C.lcnmore Road 127 91 Glenmore Road (Tennis Pavilion) 2S 11 Arawa Road School .. 359 71 Waitoa Road (Schoolroom) 845 202 Waitoa Road (Gym.) .. 324 77 Hoiighton Valley 51 !13 Clyde Street School ... 210 153 Humber Street .'. 572 314 The Parade 514 32G Kaiyvharawhara 72 111 Karorl West School .. 147 112 (iipps Street 219 52 Karorl Road Tearooms 67 4S Karorl Road Library . 573 218 Karori School 728 150 Standen Street 422 120 Kowhai Road 191 47 Raroa Road" 191 71 Upland Road (Schoolroom) 458 79 Upland Road (Tram shed) 43fi 73 Box Hill 13" S(i Cashmere Avenue ..... 14!) 120 Ganges Road C2(i 102 Xsatoto Street US 5!) Taia Hall 448 354 Kllbirnle R.S.A 298 2G0 Itex Hall 311 143 Moxham Avenue 281 80 Lower Hutt 151 H Cockburn Street . (Schoolroom) 102 97 Frcybers Street ITS 02 lyall Parade 104 188 a. Inf. 8 15 3 3 3 10 8 2 3 i; "9 5 3 4 7 10 15 10 10 4 10 7 9 10 . 1 1 11 3 3 14 10 4 4 G 3 15 4 1 6 4 r» 9 R 11 4 4 1 4 7 33

Resolution Street .... 95 Wha Street 330 Melrose Ill Chelsea Street" ' 158' Park Road 357 Mlramar North 222 Mlramar South (Knox Hall) 91_ Miro Street 359 Molesworth Street 660 Mornington School 92 Vennell Street 68 Constable Street 41S Donald McLean Street 120 Public Hospital 201 Riddiford Street (Library) 407 Riddiford Street (School) 259 Riddiford Street Hall . '422 Abbott Road, Ngaio .. 99 Ottawa Road 474 Northland Road 319 Northland School 109 Ohlro Bay .. 32 Ohiro Road 14 Oriental Bay 256 Paraparaumu Beach .. 106 Petone 15 Rongotai 170 Grafton Road 179 Maida Vale Road 166 Seatoun School .-282 Seatoun Tram Terminus 418 Strathmore Park 2S(> Sydney Street 667 Thorndon 107 Tinakori Road 237 Trentham Camp ...... 22 Vogeltown 64 Pitt Street Hall 482 Pitt Street Library ... 257 Rose Street 46 Russell Terrace 12 Worser Bay Tearooms 73 Public School 99 36 177 130 172 462 240 122 270 2S9 S9 422 1D3 100 532 369 665 88 324 216 82 57 37 49 S 10 S3 5S 92. 97* 184 309 42S 69 202 10 120 106 61 46 34 28 2 3 9 8 10 4 6 3 1 18 3 17 9 : 4 14 3 1 13 11 1 8 1 1 9 L