FIFTY YEARS AGO
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS A lack of interest was shown by citizens half a century ago in the niunictpal elections. " Considering the excitement which recently prevailed both inside and outside the City Council over the state of the finances, it was rather strange that the municipal elections passed off so quietly as they did," stated the New Zealand Herald of September 3, 1,885. " With the exception of that of the North Ward, not one of the vacant seats was the object of contest; and, owing to an informality in the nomination, the member for that ward had also a walk over. " Judging from the meetings held b? professed reformers, and the denunciations made thereat of the extravagance to which our borough legislators ha lent themselves, one would na p J f a ,' 5 have expected numerous candidate* for civic liomotirs to have been fortn* coming. But not a note of war * va , heard when the hour of contest M arrived."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22205, 4 September 1935, Page 8
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