WEDNESDAY'S ELECTIONS

Evening Star, Issue 15174, 3 May 1913, Page 11

WEDNESDAY'S ELECTIONS

[Special to the Stab.] WELLINGTON, May 2. The rebuff which Labor, especially Socialist-Labor, got at the polls on Wednesday in the mayoral election is quite as evident when the figures for the City Council are considered. The Labor-Socialists, in their attempt to make a “ clean sweep ” of things, nominated 15 candidates for 15 vacancies. The Citizens’ Association (another name for the Anti-Labor Association) nominated only 12. Of these 11 were returned, and five are entering the council for the first time. Of the Laboritcs only one (Mr Hindmarsh) is yet sure of his seat; and he is a lawyer, not a “worker” as his supporters understand the word. None of the real workers got anywhere within “ coo-ee.” The figures indicate pretty clearly that the Socialist vote in Wellington does not reach 4,(j00 all told, and that both this class and the more moderate class of worker can be easily outvoted at any election by “ the man on the fixed wage,” the ordinary unorganised citizen. There was a good deal of jubilation among this class on the day after the poll, so the dose is likely to be repeated when the political polls come on in 1914. AN APPEAL. An election petition, signed by Mr J. M'Oombs and five other electors of Linwood Ward, was lodged yesterday with the Stipendiary Magistrate “exercising jurisdiction at the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch, being the courthouse at or nearest to the principal polling place.” The petitioners, after setting forth the names of the candidates and the result of the election, pray that it may be determined that D. G. Sullivan was duly elected and ought to have been so declared. RESULT OF A RECOUNT. A recount of the votes on th« Wellington City Council poll resulted in the displacement of Messrs Trevor and F. Cohen (old members) in favor of Messrs T. E. Fitzgerald and E. Tregear (also old members). MrTregearwas formerly Secretary to the Labor Department.