Eight to Contest Three Seats

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 153, 1 July 1939, Page 6

Eight to Contest Three Seats

MEAT BOARD ELECTION Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 30. The returning officer announces that he has received the following nominations for three vacancies for the producers’ representatives on the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board:—H. D. Acland, Christchurch (sitting member) ; I. L. M. Coop, Ataahua, Canterbury; J. Cowie, Balfour, Southland; C. C. Holmes, Otaki railway, Wellington; J. M. James, Masterton; J. D. W. Ormond, Waipukurau (sitting member); J. H. Reid, Toa Toa, Bay of Plenty; 11. E. Worsp, Whangarei. The election will take place on August 31 when the delegates who will be eleoted to represent districts throughout the Dominion, and who will constitute the electoral committee, will assemble in Wellington to consider the seventeenth annual report and statement of accounts of the board, and to elect three producers’ representatives on the board. Nominations for delegates to the electoral committee close at the board’s office at noon on July 7. A postal ballot will then be conducted among sheepfarmers in districts where nominations are in excess of the number of delegates required.