AUCKLAND MAYORALTY
A WOMAN NOMINATED DOUGLAS CREDIT ADVOCATE (Pee United Press Association) AUCKLAND, March 12. A surprise announcement concerning the city mayoralty was made to-day, i when Mrs Lindsay Cooke said that she had consented to be nominated a 8 a; candidate. Mrs Cooke (who said she was better known in the South Island as Mrs Garmson) was born in Dublin in 1862, and came to New Zealand in 1879. She said she had been a Liberal-Labour supporter all her life, and had been asso-' ciated with Ballance. and Seddon. She stood for Thames as an Independent * Liberal. In the last few years she has been working on behalf of relief worker organisations in the city, and it was a < group of Grey Lynn women who asked her to stand. Mrs Cooke is the Auckland vice-president of the Douglas Credit Movement. The only other candidate so far is Mr Ernest Davis, the nominee of the Citizens' Committee. The Labour candidate has not yet been chosen.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19350313.2.99
Bibliographic details
Otago Daily Times, Issue 22519, 13 March 1935, Page 9
Word Count
165AUCKLAND MAYORALTY Otago Daily Times, Issue 22519, 13 March 1935, Page 9
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Daily Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.