DAIRY EXPORT BOARD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20800, 20 August 1929, Page 7

DAIRY EXPORT BOARD.

ELECTION IN TWO WARDS. KEEN CONTEST ANTICIPATED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August ID. , Considerable interest is being evinced in the election of three members Of the Dairy Board as representatives of the producers in wards S, 6, and 9, nominations for which closed at noon today. Tim retiring members are Messrs J. R. Corrigan, W. A. lorns (chairman of the hoard), and T. M. Tympany, representatives of wards 5,6, and 9 respectively, who retired by rotation and were eligible for nomination and reelection. The wards embrace the' following counties: Ward No. s—Waimate West, Hawera, Patea, Wajtotara, Wainmrino, Wanganui, Rangitikei, Kiwitea, Polmngina, Oroua, and Kairanga; Ward No. o—Mount Akaroa, Waiapu, Uawa, Waikohu, Cook, Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, Waipawa, Waipukurau, Pa.tangata, Dannevirke, Weber, Woodville, Pahiatu, Akitio, Eketahuna, Mauriceville, Castle Point, Masterton, Wairarapa, South Feathenston, Hutt, Makara, Horewhenua, and Mauawatu; Ward No. 9—Southland, Stewart Island, Wallace, Fiord, Lake. The nominations received by the returning oflicer (Mr W. C. Robinson, of the Department of Agriculture) are as follows:—Ward 5, Mr J. R, Corrigan; Ward 6, Mr W. A. lorns and Mr Philip Davies; Ward 9, Mr T. M. Tympany and Mr John Dunlop. It will he seen that Mr J. R. Corrigan is unopposed, but keen contests' are anticipated in respect to the other wards. The election will close at noon on September 13, and will be by a system of postal voting. The electoral rolls of producers (defined by the Dairy Produce Export Control Act, 1923, as suppliers of milk and creaiVi to factories manufacturing dairy produce for export) have been completed. It is understood that there are about 8000 names on the roll for ward 6.