AUCKLAND MAYORALTY.
A WOMAN CANDIDATE. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, March 12. A surprise announcement concerning the City Mayoralty was made to-day when Mrs Lindsay Cooke said she had consented to be nominated as a candidate. Mrs Cooke (who said she was better known in the South Island as Mrs Garmson) was born in Dublin in 1862 and came to New Zealand in 1879. She said she had been a Liberal-La-bour supporter all her life and had been associated with Ballance and Seddon. She stood for Thames as an Independent- Liberal. In the last few years she has been working on behalf of relief workers’ organisations in the city and it was a group of Grey Lynn women that asked her to stand.
Mrs Cooke is the Auckland vice-pre-sident of the Douglas Credit Movement. The only other candidate so far .is Mr Ernest Davis, the nominee of the Citizens’ Committee. The Labour candidate has not yet been chosen.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 89, 13 March 1935, Page 8
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157AUCKLAND MAYORALTY. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 89, 13 March 1935, Page 8
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