MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Northern Advocate, 22 April 1929, Page 4

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED. ONLY TEN FOR COUNCIL, Nominations for the Whangarei Borough Council closed at noon today. For nine seats on the council, ten nominations were received, including six sitting members and- the retiring Mayor. There are two aspirants for the Mayoral chair viz:—Messrs W. Jones and D. A. McLean. Those seeking election on the Council are Messrs L. J. Brake (retiring Mayor), A. .H. Curtis, E. G. W. Tibbits, L. T. Pickmere, A. T. Brainsby, James Jackson and A. M. Rust (present members), J. E, Holmes, James Donaldson and W. H, At. Yarrow. The election of three Borough nominees on the Whangarei Hospital Board promises to be interesting, five nominations having been received as follows:—Mrs Viva Donaldson, and Messrs D, A, McLean (sitting members), F. Higginson, W. Jones and R. H. Allan.

■An election will also be necessary to appoint two Borough representatives on. the Harbour Board. The aspirants arc:' Messrs J, E. Holmes (sitting), J. F. R. .Briggs .and P. E. Gardner. THE NOMINATORS.

The following are 'the nominators of the candidates respectively named. — MAYORALTY. William Jones.-—Leonard J. Brake, Alex. M. 'McLeod, Donald Alexander McLean.—-T. E. Holmes and G. rR. Sargent, COUNCIL. Arthur Todd Brainsby.—W, A. Given, P. W. Reed. Leonard James Brako.-y-L. T. Pickmere, B. R. Miller. Albert Hugh Curtis.—J. E. Holmes, S. Mclnnes. James Donaldson; —William Bentley and W. J. Orr, James Edmund Holmes.—A. H. Curtis and Samuel Mclnnes. James Jackson.—L, J. Brake and A. E. Brown. Leonard Travers Piekmore. —Evangeline Wilson and G. A. Bethell. Alexander Hearns Rust.—C. H, Oh is sell and 0. P.Owen. Ernest William’ Tibbits.—L. J. Brake, G. -C. Marshall", A. M. Rust, and S. -Clayton Thorne. William Hezekiah Mowle Yarrow. — N. M. Drummond, H. Menzies and R. W. Whitehead. HARBOUR BOARD. James Frederick Street Briggs. —J. E. Holmes and A. H. Curtis. Peter Robertson Gardner. —H. C. Rishwonth and R. G, 'Hasking. Janies Edmund Holmes.—G. R. Sargent, D, A, McLean and R. H. Allan. HOSPITAL BOARD. Robert Harold Allan.—D. A. McLean .and R. 6. Hosking. Viva Donaldson.—H. C. Eish worth, G. E. Sargent, G. C. Marshall and Frances Foote.

Frank Higginson.—G. C. Marshal}! ami F, G. Pitney.

William Jones. —L. -J. Brake ami Alex, M. McLeod. Donald Alexander McLean. —R, B. Roseman and H. N. Geissler. IN THE HAWKE'S BAY. WAIROA NOMINATIONS, (Per Press Association. —Copyright.,) WAIROA (H. 8.), This Day. Nominations for the mayoralty are: Messrs J. Corkill (present mayor), T. Browne, R. T. Ester and P. H. Summerfield. Power hoard, Messrs C. V. Chamberlain, T, Browne, J. Corkill, J. MacDonald and J. R. Gillespie (4 required), (Hospital Board, Messrs T. Browne, W. H. Brady, H. Grout, E. P. Williams and W. H. Flint (4 required). Borough council, Dr. J. Ross, Messrs R. McCurdy, A. E. Wilson, M, J, Gexnmell, E. P. Williams, W. H. Flint, J. MacDonald, C. Burridge and W. H. Brady (8 required). Harbour Board, Messrs J. Corkill and J. M. Osier were elected unopposed as borough representatives.