MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Southland Times, Issue 24439, 20 May 1941, Page 4

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

BLUFF BOROUGH COUNCIL NOMINATIONS

Nominations closed at noon yesterday for candidates to fill the three vacancies on the Bluff Borough Council. Seven nominations were received and a poll will be necessary. This will be held on May 31.

The following Is the list of candidates: —Hubert Victor Albertson, Halsey John Burke, Leonard George Johnston, John Alexander McKenzie, Stanley Gibson Mitchell, James Albert Silvester, Richard Hunt Vincent, jun. An unusual feature of the council elections at Bluff is that there are more nominations for the three vacancies than there were for the whole council of nine, for which only six nominations were received. DIPTON RIVER BOARD Nine candidates contested the five seats on the Dipton River Board, the poll resulting as follows: — Elected

NORTHERN RESULTS Additional results of municipal elections are given in the following Press Association messages:— HAMILTON. — Mr H. D. Caro retained the mayoralty with a majority of 1500 over Mr C. Croall. There were onlytwo changes on the council. Mr C. Lafferty, the sole successful Labour candidate, dropped from second to top in the last election to second to last this time. In the Hospital Board election, Mr Findlay, chairman of the board, again topped the poll, Mrs H. C. Ross replacing Mr T. G. Reynolds. Two Labour candidates failed. Mi- J. R. Fow overwhelmingly beat Mr C. Lafferty (Labour) for the Auckland Harbour Board. DANNEVIRKE.— Mr E. Gibbard, unopposed, was re-elected Mayor. MOTUEKA. — In the mayoral election Mr W. J. Eginton defeated the sitting Mayor, Mr S. E. Hutbert.

TE AROHA.— In the contest for the mayoralty Mr Laurie Mackie (620) defeated Mr Robert Coulter, a former M.P. (566). The latter had been Mayor for the past twenty years. WAIMATE.— Mr John Bitchener, in the county chairman’s first contest for the Makikihi Riding for 26 years, was defeated by Mr John Simmons by 143 to 88. WHANGAREI.— Mr William Jones has been re-elected Mayor for the third time in succession.

COUNTY CANDIDATE’S DEATH

(P.A.) DANNEVIRKE, May 19. A note of tragedy was injected into the Dannevirke county elections by the death of Mr George James Buchanan, a farmer, of Waitahora, who, as an aspiring new member, headed the county poll for both the Dannevirke hospital and power boards. Within an hour of the poll closing, and before the results were declared, Mr Buchanan had a fatal seizure after a routine job on his farm. He was president of the Dannevirke Agricultural and Pastoral Association, a member of the Electoral Committee of the Meat Board and had been a wellknown farmer in southern Hawke’s Bay for half a century. He leaves a widow-' and an adult family.

E. J. L; Shuttleworth 28 D. Goble 15 A. G. McKenzie 15 D. McRae 15 M. Reilly 15 Ncf Elected F. G. Burges,' 13 J. Burgess 13 A. D. Finlayson 13 P. Hogg 13