MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13859, 20 April 1917, Page 7

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

AVAIMATIi i\UjMI.NATIONS. Eleven candidates have been noniiii- ■ for the. nine seats on the Wnimate ' Borough Council and two candidates for the mayoralty. For the chief office the nominations are:— "DASH, George.. RUSSELL, Walter Guniey. For the seats 011 the council the fol- •' , lowing are nominated • \kr&TWILL, Edwin John. BESWICK, Alfred. . COLLETT, George William. EVANS, William Edgar. GEORGE, William Frederick. HOLMES, Charles Gerald. INKSTER, Robert, JONES, Frederick William Bevic-ke. •MEREDITH, George Sunderland. ; TOMPKINS, Joyce. •For the- borough's representatives on ther.hospital committee there will be ;io elation,-.. Mrs Orbell and Mr George Dash being the only nominations. pMp' W. Chevertou has been returned undisposed as representative on the Tirnaru High 'School- Board. \ . v.',' ... ' NO ELECTION AT LAWRENCE.. .. LAWRENCE, April 18. Benjamip Winn was elected Mayor of Lawrence to-day without opposition. . There is no change in the personnel of~ the council, as the retiring Mayor ■ (Mr James B. McKinlay) takes 'the councillorship vacated by Mr Winn's election to the mayoralty. WEST COAST MAYORALTIES. (Per Press Association.) HOKITIKA, April 18. The following gentlemen were to-day reelected unopposed:— Hokiti^a —George 'Perry. • liumara—James Murdoch. Ross—Joseph Grimmond. • GREYMOUTH NOMINATIONS. ; ■ GREYMOUTH, April 18. Mr J. D. Lynch has been returned unopposed of v Mayor of Greymouth. There are sixteen nomnatons for councillors and nine for the CharitableAid Board.