MAYORAL ELECTION

Evening Star, Issue 21379, 5 April 1933, Page 5

MAYORAL ELECTION

MR R. S. BLACK'S CANDIDATURE There was a large attendance of electors at the Methodist Church Hall, Mornington,'last night, when Mr R. 8. Black delivered his first public address in connection with the mayoral election. The speaker was given a particularly sympathetic hearing, and at the conclusion of the meeting a vote of thanks to and confidence in him, which was moved by Mr R. S. Watson and seconded by Mr W. Trengrovo, was carried without a dissentient voice. Mr W. Holloway occupied the chair, and in introducing the candidate he said that, although Mr Black had occupied the mayoral chair lor two terms, there was a large body of opinion that he was entitled to a third term, not only by reason of bis great services, but that it would be entirely in the interests of the city to have him continue his successful dealing witli its affairs. Deputations representing all classes of the community had waited upon Mr Black and requested him once more to offer himself for office.

Mr Black, who was cordially received, said that he made no apologies for standing again, as he had done so because of the many requests he had received. The test he would ask them to use was this; “ Has he been of use to us? And will he be of further use to us?” Mr Black wont on to touch upon various phases of municipal activities, and emphasised the happy financial position Dunedin was in compared with most other cities. Dealing with the-burning question of unemployment, the candidate said that he still strongly advocated that the Post Office building should be proceeded with as one means of finding work for a number of men. The present was an opportune time for this, he said, because of the low rate of interest at which the money could be obtained, the low cost of material, the opportunity of obtaining a subsidy from the Unemployment Board, and the benefit to Dunedin and its citizens in having the Government offices housed under one roof. Air Black also dealt with the pressing need for an improved water supply, and concluded with a resume of the activities connected with the organisation for the relief of distress, in which work lie claimed to have given of his best, as also had Mrs Black.