MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 April 1933, Page 5

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

GREYMOUTH CANDIDATES CONTEST FOR MAYORALTY With the closing of nominations, at noon to-day, interest in the municipal elections, to be held throughout New Zealand on May 3, has assumed definite form. The Mayoralty of Greymouth is .to be contested, for the first time since 1927, and Mr' J. W. Greenslade, the present Mayor, will be opposed by Mr F. L. Turley, a resident of Cobden, member of the Grey Power Board, member of the Greymouth Technical School Board, and secretary of the Westland Timber Workers’ Union. Mr Greenslade has been Mayor for the past six years, having been elected in 1927 and re-elected unopposed in 1929 and 1931. There will be a contest for tbe nine seats on the Greymouth Borough Council, eleven candidates having been nominated. All the sitting councillors seek re-election, and the new aspirants to municipal honours are Messrs F. F. Boustridge and A. McCarthy. Keen competition is indicated for the four seats on,.the Grey River Hospital Board, as Borough representatives. Three of the sitting members, Mrs K. O’Brien and Messrs R. A. Barrowman and J. Kyle, are again offering their services, but the fourth Borough representative, Mr R. E. Clarke, has not been nominated for a further period. There are five new candidates, Messrs F. F. Boustridge, A. Mosley, J. B. Kent, G. Perotti, and F. L. Turley. The three Borough representatives on the Grey District Power Board, Messrs J. W. Greenslade, J. B. Kent, and W. H. Parfitt, have been re-elect-ed, unopposed. Following are the various candi- • dates, and their nominators: —

MAYORALTY. Greenslade, John Webber, nominated by John Deere and George Edward Perkins. Turley, Frederick Lovell, nominated by John Guy and Archibald John McDowall. BOROUGH COUNCIL. Boustridge, Francis Frederick, nominated by Ernest Warnes and George Ralph Harker. Carroll, Andrew Michael, nominated by Frederick Arthur Kitchingham and William Henry Parfitt. Kent, James Begg, nominated by Oliver McLean and John Deere. Kitchingham, Frederick Arthur, nominated by Thomas Eldon Coates and Frederick Walter Shallcrass. Lawn, Frank Benjamin, nominated by Herbert Moore and Stanley Burnett White. McCarthy, Arthur, nominated by James Goodall and Richard Stanley Spencer. McGinley, James, nominated by William Henry Parfitt and Thomas Eldon Coates. Neville, Cyril, nominated by William Henry Parfitt and John Webber Greenslade. Perotti, Gerald, nominated by John Tennent, William Patrick Sullivan, and William Henry Parfitt. Robertson, John Spiers, nominated by James McGinley and John Webber Greenslade. Williams, Richard Jones, nominated by Arthur Naylor and William Thomas Kyle. HOSPITAL BOARD. Barrowman, Robert Alexander, nominated by Philip Courtenay Heaphy and Hyde Herring. Boustridge, Francis Frederick, nominated by Ernest Warnes and George Ralph Harker. Kent, James Begg, nominated by Oliver McLean and John Deere. Kyle, James, nominated by Frederick James Parkinson and Thomas Albert William Tate. Mosley, Alexander, nominated by Per 1 * cival Sydney Beck and Thomas Eldon Coates. O’Brien, Kate Teresa, nominated by Henry Harvey, Richard Stanley Spencer, James Begg Kent, and James Goodall. Perotti, Gerald, nominated by John Tennent, William Patrick Sullivan, and William Henry Parfitt. Turley, Frederick Lovell, nominated by James Kyle and Norman Victor Lovell. POWER BOARD. Greenslade, John Webber, nominated by John Deere and George Edward Perkins. Kent, James Begg, nominated by Oliver McLean and John Deere. Parfitt, William Henry, nominated by Andrew Michael Carroll, Cyril Neville, and Michael Joseph Fogarty.

CANDIDATE’S DEPOSIT. The fact that a deposit of £lO is required from a candidate for the Mayoralty, and £3 from a candidate for the Borough Council, Hospital Board, or Power Board, has led to several enquiries regarding the position. The Returning Officer (Mr F. H. Denton) explained, to-day, that the Act provides that, if the candidate does not poll one-eighth of the votes polled by the successful candidate, or, as the case may be, by the successful candidate polling the fewest votes, the deposit shall be forfeited. RUNANGA. Mayoralty: Robert McTaggart, James Kilpatrick Connel. Borough Council: (six required): Thomas Bowes, Thomas Syddal Williams, John Howell Price, Frank John Oakley, Henry Duggan, Richard Southward, Thomas Walker, Edward Graham, George Edward English, James William Kitchener. Grey Power Board (one required): Henry Duggan, George Edward English, John Howell Price. Grey Hospital Board (one representative of the combined Boroughs of Runanga and Brunner): Robert McTaggart, John Dowling. BRUNNER. Mayoralty: John Smeaton, Frederick Williams. Borough Council (six required): Walter Barber, George H. S. Eder.

John Devlin, Robert Fordham, Waltei Guthberlet, Thomas Harper, David Kennedy, John Alexander McNeish, Angus McLagan, Thomas Morgan, William P Nimmo, James Pender, James Henry Charles Roberts. Grey Power Board (one required): William Henry Carse, John Smeaton HOKITIKA. [OUB OWN CORRESPONDENT.] HOKITIKA, April 19. The Mayor (Mr G. A. Perry) has been re-elected, unopposed. The following have been nominated for the nine seats on the Borough Council: A. C. Armstrong, J. A. Cuttance, T. W. Duff, A. R. Elcock, E. W. Heenan, G. Heinz, junr., James King, D. P. Stuart, E. Teichelmann, A. J. Thompson, and M. McGavin. Mr D. J. Evans did not nominate. The following were nominated for the Harbour Board (three required): E. W. Heenan, N. Warren, and J. Cuttance. Hospital Board (three required): J. Fox, T. W. Duff, E. W. Heenan, M. McGavin, and the Rev. H. J. W. Knights. Mr Fox is a new nominee. DUNEDIN. DUNEDIN, April 19. Five candidates have been nominated for the City Mayoralty, as follow: R. S. Black (sitting Mayor), F. W. Mitchell (Deputy-Mayor), Rev. E. T. Cox, C. M. Moss, and M. O’Rourke (Communist). Twenty-six candidates, including full Citizens and Labour “tickets,” are standing for twelve seats on the City Council. The Labour Party is not contesting the Mayoralty. AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, August 19. Mr G. W. Hutchison, the sitting Mayor, and Mr H. G. R. Mason, M.P., have been nominated for the City Mayoralty. There are 43 candidates for 21 seats on the City Council.