LICENSING COMMITTEES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19265, 2 March 1926, Page 12

LICENSING COMMITTEES.

s OHINEMURI NOMINATIONS, OVER TWENTY CANDIDATES. [BY TELEGRAPH. OWN CORRESPONDENT.] PAEHOA, Monday. Nominations for the Ohinemuri Licensing Committee closed on Saturday, and for the five seats to be filled, 22 nominations were received.

The election 13 awakening keen interest as it will be the committee's duty to decide the number of licenses to be issued. All parts of the area have representatives seeking election, and places which hardly existed in 1909, when nolicense was carried, have now grown to .such an extent that they have candidates nominated, and hope to obtain licenses when the allocation is under consideration. As far as Paeroa is concerned, it is undoubtedly the wish of a majority of the people that the four licenses which lapsed when no-license was carried should be restored.

The following candidates have been nominated: —W. I. Towers (Paeroa),, E. Edwards (Paeroa), P. E. Brenan (Paeroa), W. M. Wallnut (Waihi), S. S. Allen {Morrinsville), J. M. Thompson (Kerepeehi), B. Gwilliam (Netherton), W. Marshall (Paeroa), J. Calligan (Waihi), J. Murray ("Waihi), H. B. Dale (Waihi), A. 'D. McGwire (Karangahake,) F. W. Walter (Waitoa), C. Mason (Waikino), S. Morgan {Waikino), W. E. Busch (Waihi), T. K Patterson (Waihi), W. Taylor (Paeroa),- R. P. Phillpot (Waihi), J. Slevin (Waihi), S. Wakefield (Waihi), F. W. Stamp (Waihi).

THE MABSDEN DISTRICT. ELECTION NOT NECESSARY. [BY TELEGRAPH. OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WHAXGAREI, Monday. The following nominations have been received for. the Marsden District Licensing Committee.—Messrs. Norman Finlayson, James Edward Holmes, Charles Robert Lovatt, Albert Hugh Curtis and •John Horatio Hayward. As five members are required it will not be necessary to hold an election.