HOSPITAL BOARD ELECTIONS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXI, Issue 15257, 18 March 1910, Page 8

HOSPITAL BOARD ELECTIONS.

AIR SORENSEN DISPLACES AIR GAPES.

The returns of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board election on Wednesday M'ero erroneous in one detail, and the corrected figures give the seventh seat to Air H. B. Sorensen and not to Mr T. Gapes. Tho voting announced for the candidates was Gapes 713, Sorensen ■ 702. The correct figures should be Sorensen 752, Gapes 713. Tlie mistake occurred in telephoning the result from the Lin wood Library, Air Sorensen’s figures being given as 49 instead of 99. Mr Gapes’s figures for the same booth were 61.

The poll for the election to the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board of one representative of the borough of Akaroa and the counties of Akaroa and Mount Herbert resulted in the return of Mr J. 311. Murray, who poJlodvl32 votes, his opponent, Dr Thacker, receiving 50. lh the borough of Akaroa sixty-two votes were cast for.Mr Murray and nine for Dr Thacker. Mr W. Jamieson, returning officer for the Selwyn and other counties, was not able to announce the results of the contest for those districts yesterday. Last night there was still one return to come' in, and Mr Jameson does not wish to give any details until all the returns arc available. Ho reports that he will be able to announce the result this morifiiig. to the EDrroß. Sir, —Will you allow me through your paper to sincerely thank those electors who have placed us women on tho new Hospital and Charitable Aid Board? If wc follow the excellent examples of our predecessors, Mrs Black, Mrs Dunkley and Mrs Wells, in attention to duty and loyalty to responsibility we shall not, I trust disappoint the public., I do 1 not know why the good Mayor hints that the new members may “ imagine they know all about the Hospital, which had taken thirty years to get into an efficient condition,” or why these members should bring forward “proposals that might lessen efficiency and iead to great expense.” It is hardly fair to handicap us with such gloomy suggestions. Let ns hope that we shall not indulge in bumptious bomb-throwing, hut behave like ordinarily intelligent citizens who look before thev leap.—l am, etc., E. W.' CUNNINGTON. March 17. [Per Press Association.] WANGANUI, March 17. At tho Hospital Board election Messrs Carson, Battle and Spriggens were elected, a lady candidate being defeated. NELSON, March 17. Of the Hospital Board elections only the city and Richmond returns are available,as yet. Mr Thomas Field, an old member, Mr W. Lock, and Mes<l tunes C. Y. Fell and H. Watson were elected. Very little interest was taken in the elections, and the polling was small. DUNEDIN, March 17. Very little interest was taken in yesterday’s election of the Hospital Board. ‘Of 12,000 voters on the city rolls, only 1500 cast votes. The. following were tho successful candidates: — Messrs Loudon (ex-Mayor), Walker (Mayor), Larnach, Myers, Talbovs (chairman of the Benevolent Trustees) and Clark. For the Hill suburbs Messrs Wilkinson and Hamel were elected. For Waikouaiti Mr Templeton, was successful.