LOCAL BODY ISSUES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 124, 11 May 1935, Page 5

LOCAL BODY ISSUES

OFFICIAL COUNTS 50 Per Cent, of Electors Vote NO CHANGES IN POSITION The official count in connection with the municipal elections at Hastings was completed last night by the returning officer, *lr. Noel Harding, and his staff. The counting of the declaration votes resulted in increases to candidates ’in each of the issues, but no changes in positions have been made to those announced on the night of the poll. Approximately 4450 votes were recorded out of a total roll of 8420. A total of 45,808 recorded votes had to be counted, of which over 32,000 were concerned in the issue for the Borough Council. The results of the count are as under;— HALF-HOLIDAY. THURSDAY 3078 Saturday 1263 Other days 35 Informal 43 Majority in favour of Thursday 1815 HARBOUR BOARD. BROWN, R. D 3237 RICHMOND, W 2611 Baker, B 2081 Informal 62 BOROUGH COUNCIL. RAINBOW, A. 1 3459 McKEE, S. J 3289 MeCORMICK, G. W. .. 2962 ASHCROFT, d 2842 LOACH, P. E 2635 COHR, P. M 2554 FALCONER, T 2508 SLATER, C. H 2236 DOBSON, T. S 2230 Stiekland, J 2095 Bastin, F. II 1953 Barry, E. J. V 1461 Barley, R. E 1178 Dailey, E. H 986 Bellerby, E. E. (Mrs.) . 758 Informal 252

NAPIER COUNT Council and Mayoralty The official recount for all the election issues at Napier will be concluded to-day, but so far the Mayoral and Borough Council sections only are complete. So far as the candidates in these two sections are concerned, the count has not brought any actual differences of position from what they were on Thursday morning. The figures are as follow:— , BOROUGH COUNCIL. BEDFORD, A. E 4779 GOODGEB, R. W 4355 MAYNE, A. H. D 4348 HIGGINS, P. F 4278 COX, C. D 4148 SPENCE, M. S 4056 BIGGS, A. C. B 3860 WILLIAMS, E 3676 OLDHAM, J. H 3588 CARRINGTON, E. E. .. 3457 HERCOCK, T. W 3230 Harman, H. J. 3096 MeNaught, C. 0 2899 McCarthy, T 2651 Bryant, J. C 2604 Bryan, A 2285 Informal 353 This morning Councillor M, S. Spence, who on Monday morning will leave Napier on a six months’ holiday to Soctland, was officially sworn in by the assistant-Town Clerk, Mr. F. R. Watters, and Mr. C. O. Morse, the reelected Mayor. MAYORALTY. The official count has given Mr. C. O. Morse a majority of. 121 over the runner-up, Mr. A. H. Fergusson, who at the first count on Wednesday night was only 117 votes behind him. The count brought the following result:— MORSE, C. 0 2215 Ferguson, A. H 209-1 Law, J. 1204 Brown, J. V 555 Creagh, B. B 431 Informal 73