TRANSPORT BOARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 521, 26 November 1928, Page 8

TRANSPORT BOARD

PETTY STRIFE RESULTS ELECTION POSITION I Internal petty differences have a ,k au interest to the election which^ 1 now be necessary to decide two suburban representatives on Transport Board. Until a few days a so it seemed tually certain that Messrs. E. y , and R. G. Clark would combined One Tree Hill, Panmure. Mount Roskill, M ount ! ingtou and JEUerslie districts, but n ‘ Tree Hill Road Board, which’is xn*? I going a period of factional different in the council, nominated Mr r Dobbie, its present chairman, 'ins of Mr. Clark, who, as chairman f! several years, was one of those awT prominently connected with the port movement, and is one to wh the suburbs owe thanks for the jj,'? tution of a board. However. Mr. Clark had been nom. inated by Mount Wellington, and th e are now five candidates for two p&cK Mount Albert, Mount Eden and Ken. market managed to avoid election bv nominating only two between then though Newmarket could not let th<! occasion pass without some demosstration. Before agreeing to suppon an outside member the Newmarket Council found itself with the Major and practicaljy every councillor nor, inated, au impasse which was over come by each rising in turn and with, drawing. The position in the other districts probably will bo decided by an ele t , tion at which members of 'the various local bodies concerned will vote. Tm £ bodies which nominated candidates, and their voting powers, are therefore of interest. The candidates and ti ß bodies which nominated them are:H. B..Dobbie, of and nominated by One Tree Hill. R. G. Clark, of One Tree Hill, notlt inated by Mount Wellington. E. F. Jones, of Mount Roskill, noninated by Mount Roskill and Mourn Wellington. F. S. Morton, of and nominated b» Onehunga. A. Milliken, of and nominated b? i Ellerslie. The numbgr of members and there f fore the voting strength of the van, 1 ous bodies is as follows:—. Ellerslie, 7; Mount Roskill, 9; One f hunga, 10; One Tree Hill, 7; Moult Wellington, 5; Panmure, 5. The final say in the method of elec tion rests, however, with the Miniita,