TRAMWAYS BOARD

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 November 1924, Page 2

TRAMWAYS BOARD

ALL LABOURITES REJECTED

The outstanding feature of the Christchurch Tramways Board poll on Monday was the defeat of all the Labour candidates, and the return in the Central isub-district, of all the Citizens’ Association’s candidates. The only alteration in the personnel of the Board is the election for the Central sub-district, of Mr E. W. White, in place of Mr J. W. Beanland, did not seek re-election, and the election of Mr John Wood for the Riccarton Fendalton sub-district, in place of Mr S. A. Staples, who did not seek re-elec-tion. The contest in the Central sub-dis-trict resulted in Lhe return of the- Citizens’ Association’s five candidates, Mr J. McCombs, M.P. (Labour), being sixth on the list, 202 votes less than Mr E. W. White (Citizens). Following was the result: — Geo. T. Booth (Citizens) . . 3192 H. Peapce (Citizens) . . 3140 A. S. Taylor (Citizens) .. 3101 J. A. Flesher (Citizens) . . 3068 E. W. White (Citizens) .. 2507 J. McCombs (Labour) 2305 J. K. Archer (Labour) 2244 C. L. Carr (Labour) 1951 G. T. Owen (Labour) 1712 C. Renn (Labour) 1682 C. E. Cross (Independent) 1123 The Spreydon-Addifigton contest resulted in the return of the sitting member, Mr D. Sykes (Independent), by a substantial majority over lhe Labour candidate, Mr F. R. Cooke.-: The result was : — I). Sykes (Independent) .. 761 F. R. Cooke (Labour) .. 546