MEN AND MUNICIPALITIES

NZ Truth, Issue 910, 5 May 1923, Page 4

MEN AND MUNICIPALITIES

The Successful Aad Unsuccessful There is some Very interesting personalia in the results of the municipal elections. Bob Wright was not the only printer who won re-election to the chair. Bob Hornblow waa re^uVned. again at Dargavllle— a fact which will make the Hon. Mr. Coates very uneasy, for it is a further sign of popularity f pr a rival politician. Mr. Coates aspires to Elijah's cloak, said garment being Big Billiam's — and Bob Hornblow, who will never be satisfied until he gets into the -House, continue? to be the thorn in the flesh- of the Premier-that-hopes-to-be. ■■• Bob H. once made Davo Guthrle to alt up and take notice in a contest for the Oroua seat. ' A brother of Bob's, by the way, was re-eleqted to Wellington's Hospital Board. He also la a printer, like yet another brother, John, owner of the Foxton "Herald." Mayor Anderson, of Dannevirke, got the shock of a long municipal career^— ho was defeated fpr re-election, being beaten by his friend Runclman. Anderson was outed because of his action on the reduction of the Mayoral honorarium. . Tlmaru wouldn't have a parson to i-ule over it, putting Cbngrcgatlonallst Potts's pot on, but in Ohristchurch Damn . the - Ratepayers Arehw, , a Methodist parson, was ut the heud of the Hospital Board poll. When the campaign was on for the Mayoral chair of Palmeraton North, it was argued strenuously that the House of Lancaster was sure to score against Nathan. But the red rose was in conflict with the white o£ the York, wedding—so Fred Nathan destructively defeated the farmer who aspired to the Nash succession. Fred N., who ia a brother of the late David N., of Wellington, will make a tip-top Mayor, and he is an keen as a safety blade for the hub of the — well. Mariawatu. Hollingd, of Maatcrton, who did that rare act of self-denial, resigned the Magistracy to get busy In the law again, sottling In Foxton, failed to win that seaport's Mayoral chair.' R. B. WUUams—ls he the sweet tenor of the Fisk Jubilees who hung up his shingle as a lawyer in Wellington, and was in municipal life in the city's suburbs? — waa rejected for the Mayoral chair up in Tauniarunul. " s . During the Dunodln campaign they called the leader In the triangular 4uel Mark Tnpley, because he was so hopeful of winning. His hope was justified. They say the Mayoralty of our Edinburgh of the Sooth is worth a decoration, to follow the South Seas Exhibition. Don't forget that John Roberts got his C.M.Q. as the honor for tho previous Now Zealand and South Seas Exhibition held In Dunedln some. 30 years ago, The head of MurrayRoberts is siow Sir John — and a very worthy knight. > So Mayor Tapley. may still hope on, now that he has hopped on. to the chair, - ; „ „ . .._;