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AUCKLAND ELECTRIC POWER WARD. ELECTION OP MEMBERS. POLLING DAY, TOMORROW (TUESDAY), FEBRUARY 28. APCILAND'S FIRST POWER BOARD. RATEPAYERS, UPON YOUR SELECTION DEPENDS THE SUCCESS OF THE WHOLE SCHEME, AND CONSEQUENTLY THE PROGRESS OF YOUR INDUSTRIES AND THE PROSPERITY OF THE DISTRICT. THE POWER BOARD WILL HAVE RATING POWERS, WILL DEAL IN MILLIONS, WILL HAVE TO CONTRACT WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND LOCAL BODIES AND ITS MEMBERSHIP MUST INCLUDE INDEPENDENT REPRESENTATIVES OF THE RATEPAYERS, SOUND BUSINESS MEN, MEN EXPERIENCED IN FINANCE, THEREFORE THE PROGRESSIVE CITIZENS' ELECTION COMMITTEE, Representing lEE AUCKLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, THE AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL LN'DUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION. TEE AUCKLAND PROVINCIAL EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION. H.Z. WELFARE LEAGUE (Auckland Branch), BUBMITS FOR TOUR CONSIDERATION THE FOLLOWING TICKET:— B. I HARBUTT, Chairman of Hjdro-Electric League; Member Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, Managing Director of X&p&i Com Broom Co. i l . M. HILLS, President of Auckland Industrial Asse- . cistion and Director of Thnmpeon and Hills. (ALBERT SPENCER, President Employers' Association, Managing Director Caiton Printing Works and Auckland Steam Laundry. t E. LAWRY, One of the Originators of the Power Board Movement and Managing Director W. Sutherland and Co. H. T. GOLDIE, Director of D. G oldie and Sons. B. IRWIN CROOKES, M.1.K.E., Consulting Electrical Engineer, has directed some of the Largest Electrical Installations in the Province. ar. DEMPSEY, Auckland City Councillor and nell-known Merchant. 8. G. CLARKE, Chairman One Tree Hill Road Board, and Director Robertson Bros. T. BLOODWORTH, Auckland City Councillor, and Secretary Amalgamated Society Carpenters and Joiners. J. PARK, Mayor of Onehunga, and prime mover in establishment of Power Board. & H. POTTER., Mount Eden Borough Councillor, »nd Director Tanfield, Potter, gnd Co. W. I HOLDSWORTH, Clhairman Electricity and Tramways Committee Citv Council, and Manwinc Director W. Holdsworth and Co. BEWARE. SHE CITY COUNCIL AND LOCAL BODIES. BY TBEIR TICKET, PROPOSE TO PACK THE BOARD IWITH THEIR OWN MEMBERS, Gentlemen selected by their constituents to perform duties different from those required of a board controlling a GREAT INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKING. DO YOU REALISE Seat th» City Council will be dsaling with the Board to the tune of lUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, And that they and the other Local Bodies will be CONSTANTLY BARGAINING WITH THE BOARD? Ever* Nominee on that ticket, being a member of the Council or an interested Local Body, will be BARGAINING ON BOTH SIDES. WHERE DO THE RATEPAYERS COME IN? •WHERE DO THE CONSUMERS COME IN? HAVE YOU NO RIGHTS? lOU PAY THE PIPER, WHY NOT CALL THE TUNE? BUI', WHATEVER YOU DO, VOTE, VOTE, vori

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18026, 27 February 1922, Page 6

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Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18026, 27 February 1922, Page 6

Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18026, 27 February 1922, Page 6