LOCAL BODIES’ ELECTIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19521, 31 March 1927, Page 6

LOCAL BODIES’ ELECTIONS

CANDIDATES ANNOUNCED hits M. A. M’lntyre, of Frederick street, has been nominated as a candidate for . the Otago Hospital and Charitable Aid Board at the forthcoming election. Though not officially connected with any organisation, Mrs M'lntyre has always willingly assisted with all charitable and philanthropic work in the city. In this way she did valuable work during the war years and at the time of the flood, was a member of the Exhibition Housing Committee, and last winter assisted in supplying meals to the unemployed. She has assisted the Returned Soldiers’ Association in its Poppy Day campaign each year since its inception some years ago. Mrs Marshall Macdonald, who has been a member of the Otago Hospital Board for some years, will not be a candidate for that body at the coming elections, but has decided to stand for the City Council. An influential committee has been formed to support her candidature. Mrs Walter Ross, who has been ask; by the Otago Women’s Club to star. ' for election to tho Hospital Board, belongs to the Returned Soldiers’ Association. as an ox-Army nurse, is a member of tho New Zealand Trained Nurses’ Association, and president of the Kaikorai branch of the Home Economics Association, and was on the committee of women that provided the rest room for women and children.