AUCKLAND MAYORALTY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20244, 2 May 1929, Page 15

AUCKLAND MAYORALTY.

DETAILS OF THE VOTING. MR. BAILDON WINS BY 890. I LABOUR NOMINEE SECOND. ALL CANDIDATES POLL WELL. By a majority of 890 votes, Mr. G. Baildon was re-elected Mayor of Auckland for a third term of office. As was the case in 1927, Mr. T. Bloodworth, the official Labour candidate, was second. Mr. H. E. Vaile was third, with an excess of 847 votes over the fourth candidate, Mr. W. H. Murray. Details of the voting are:— Votes. G. Baildon . - • • • 7578 T. Bloodworth .. «• 6688 H. E. Vaile . . . - . * 5142 W. H. Murray .» .. 4295 Majority for Baildon . . 890 There were 283 informal votes. The official returns at the lust election were:—Baildon, 8796 votes; Bloodworth, 7194; J. A. Warnock. 3256; H. D. Schmidt, 1703. The first, return came in at 10 minutes past seven from the Purewa Public Works camp, which gave Mr. Bloodworth a majority of 15 over Mr. Baildon. Returns then came in rapidly, and Mr. Bloodworth maintained a lead for the first eight. The Chamber of Commerce booth, with its majority of 302, swung the balance in Mr. Baildon's favour. From this on Mr. Baildon was never headed, although his lead was a fluctuating one. Close on eight o'clock, when 37 returns had been received, Mr. Baildon's majority was 885. Mr. Vaile was third with 3644 votes, and Mr. Murray had 2468 votes.

The Town Hall booth reported 837 Totes for Mr. Baiidon, 458 for Mr. Bloodworth, 339 for Mr. Murray and 504 for Mr. Vaile, At the Leys Institute the voting for the respective candidates was 453, 472, 490 and 252, the total at this stage being:—Mr. Baiidon, 6681, or 1314 in excess of Mr. Bloodworth; Mr. Vaile, 4491, and Mr. Murray .3390.

The last returns were from the Epiphany Sunday School, Karangahape Road, and the Green Bay mission hall, Avondale.

SUCCESS AND DEFEAT.

REMARKS BY CANDIDATES. MAYOR THANKS ELECTORS. Mr. Baiidon addressed the largo crowd outside the Herald notice-board in Wyndham Street when it became known that his return was assured. " I wish to thank electors for the honour they have done me in again returning me at the head of the poll for the Auckland Mayoralty," he said. " This is the third time 1 have stood for the position of Mayor, and on each occasion I have had to contest an election. " I am pleased that the confidence of electors has again been placed in me. I appreciate it all the more because of the fact that certain things have been said sbout the City Council which I considered were absolutely unjustified. I thought it was my duty, as the head of the City Council, to contest the election, if only in order to justify the work that we have done during my term as Mayor. " I wish to thank" the voluntary helpers who gave- me their assistance during the present campaign. I did not. have a great deal of money with which to contest the election, but my friends who supported me four years ago are supporting me to-day, and it is to their Joyal support that I owe my present position. I assure you that it will be iny endeavour during the next two years to justify the confidence you have placed in me This will be my aim, as it has been in the past, in spite of adverse criticism that has come from certain ratea*MrS'Vaile, speaking after the result of the election was known, said: "I congratulate Mr. Baiidon on his victory. I shall be like Cincinnati, and return to the plough. I have enjoyed the campaign very much, and I.will be just as good friends with Mr. Baiidon m i future as I have been in the past. "Naturally I am disappointed at the result, not so much for my own sake as for that of the people who wowed so hard for my return.' said Mr. Bloodworth. "I appreciate greatly their efforts, and I am also grateful to all those electors who cast their votes in my favour. J. congratulate Mr. Baiidon on his victory. The conlest has been a good one and has been fought fairly _ and cleanly, and I feel sure that now it is over we can ail go forward doing our best for the city." ' ~ Mr. Bloodworth added that he would like to express his thanks to the riewspapars for the manner in which, they had ported his meetings