SYDNEY’S NEW COUNCIL
REFORM DEFEATS LABOUR I LORD MAYOR ELECT [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. June 19, 8 a m.) SYDNEY,'June 18. The civic commission having been abolished, polling took place to-day for the new Council for the City of Sydney. There are forty-two candidates for the fifteen seats, comprising reform, which is the anti-Labour party, several independents, and the accredited Labour nominees. The campaign has been short and bitter, the Reformates stressing Labour’s misdeeds in the past. The election is noteworthy on account of the presence of J. S. Garden, secretary of the Labour Council, among the Labour aspirants. The outcome of the polling is not yet known, but it is understood the Reform party are assured of a majority, possibly ten to Labour’s five. It is also believed that Garden, has been defeated.
MR GARDEN SUCCESSFUL.
SYDNEY, June 19.
By winning nine seats 'td Labour’s six, the Civic Reform Party will govern Sydney for the next two and a-half years.
The Independents fared badly in all wards.
S. Walder, Vice-chairman of • the Reform Aidermen in the last. City Council, will probably be the new Lord Mayor. , J. S.. Garden was successful, but polled a thousand fewer votes than his fellow Labourite T. Shannon in the same ward.
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