HARBOUR BOARD

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27551, 20 November 1950, Page 4

HARBOUR BOARD

THREE LABOUR SEATS City Representation On the first occasion in many years on which the system of representation on the Otago Harbour Board has been wholly elective, three of the four city seats were gained by Labour candidates. Those returned included the sitting chairman, Mr W. R. Clarke, who topped the poll, and the secretary of the Dunedin Waterside Workers’ Union, Mr S. B. Macdonald, who was formerly a Government appointee. The other city members elected were Mr P. G. Connolly, a Labour Member of Parliament, and one of the four Citizens’ Association candidates, Mr W. J. Winefield. Three sitting Citizens’ Association candidates were defeated. In the voting on Saturday, Mr T. Anderson led Mr C. O. Knewstubb by 47 votes for the Port Chalmers-West Harbour seat. The position is not wholly decisive yet, for about 80 postal and declaration votes have to be counted. The results of the polling were:— CITY OF DUNEDIN •Clarke, William Robert (L.) .. 12,843 Connolly, Phillip George (L.) 12,395 •Macdonald, Stanley Bradley (L.) 11,319 •Winefield, William James (C.) 11,108 (Elected.) •Carter, Harold Christopher (C.) 10,970 Harrison, James (L.) .. .. 10,849 •Henderson, John Gibb (C.) .. 10,597 •Derbidge, Leslie Lewis (C.) .. 9,372 Informal 329 ST' HILDA •Traill, Philip Anthony (L.), elected unopposed. PORT CHALMERS AND WEST HARBOUR BOROUGHS •Anderson; Thomas 487 •Knewstubb, Charles Oliver .. 440 Munro, David Johnston .. .. 335 TAIERI COUNTY AND MOSGIEL AND GREEN ISLAND BOROUGHS Stevenson, George 1526 (Elected.) .Dickinson, William 970 COMBINED PENINSULA, WAIKOUAITI AND WAIHEMO COUNTIES AND PALMERSTON AND WAIKOUAITI BOROUGHS •Preston, John (elected unopposed). TUAPEKA COUNTY AND BOROUGHS OF. LAWRENCE, ROXBURGH AND TAPANUI •Thompson, Richard Samuel (elected unopposed). \ MANIOTOTO AND VINCENT COUNTIES AND THEIR INTERNAL BOROUGHS •Partridge, William (elected unopposed). CLUTHA COUNTY AND BALCLUTHA BOROUGH Cross, George (L.) 709 (Elected.) Mclntosh, James 246 BRUCE COUNTY AND MILTON AND KAITANGATA Burnside, Thomas Mcßride .. .. 496 Sumpter, Denis Jack .. •• 450