LICENSING COMMITTEES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 79

LICENSING COMMITTEES.

At noon on Wednesday nominations for the three licensing committees (Dunedin. Dunedin South, and Chalmers) closed with the returning officers, but the nominations were only sufficient to fill the vacancies. Accordingly, the following committees have been declared elected: — DUNEDIN.

Fred William Knight (proposed by William Hampden I’oyntz and William Fulton Abel).

Vivian Simeon Jacobs (proposed by Robert G. Hudson and Alexander Smith Milne).

James Mitchell (proposed by Frederick Tanner Baker and Charles N. Etheridge). David Larnach (proposed by John Kaye Alacfie and Hagbarth Ernest Moller). James Saadi lands Douglas (pronosed by George Hav and George E. Withers).

DUNEDIN SOUTH. Robert William Hall (proposed by Robert Scott Allan and David Wigley Kaye). Robert Teller (proposed by Adam David Edgar and James Bertie Wootton) . Allan Angus Campbell (proposed by Adam David Edgar and Matthew Norman Johnson). Alexander Smiley (proposed by James William Dove, George Stratton. James William Mackay. and Mary Tylee). James John Marlow (proposed by Alexander Joseph Harris and Edwin Longworth). CHALMERS. Thomas Anderson (proposed by William George Lane and Richard Currie Leftwich). Alexander Cable (proposed hv William Herbert Madigan and Jamea Jamieson). Otto Edward Godfred Loll (proposed by Charles Clark Timlin and Thomas Mathewson). Walter Brown Morgan (proposed by Nicholas Dodds and John Watson). Thomas Butchert Wilson (proposed by Marcus Henry Hill and James Craig). CENTRAL OTAGO. Nominations for the Central Otago Licensing Committee closed here on Wednesday with no fewer than 13 candidates for the five seats on the committee, in--1 eluding the five sitting members. In 1926 only one more than the required number was nominated, and prior to that year there had been no election since 1911. The names of the candidates and their places of residence and their occupations are: Reid, William, Arrowtown, flourmiller; Sutherland, Donald Finlayson, Queenstown, blacksmith; Thornton, Olgar Archibald, Glenorchy, storekeeper; Murphy. Charles Edward, Alexandra; Faigan Leopold. Millers Flat, storekeeper; Anderson, William Arthur, Queenstown, medical practitioner: Inder, Robert Sheppard Franks, Wedderburn, farmer; Jelley, William, Cromwell, draper; Lee, Leo, Lower Shotover, farmer; Mitchell. Thomas, Ranfurly,' builder; Morgan, Edward, St. Bathans, sheep, farmer; Smith, Alexander. Ranfurly, motor mechanic; Stevens, Harold Edgar, Clyde, journalist. The five first-named are the members of the sitting committee.