LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 638, 15 April 1929, Page 11

LOCAL BODY ELECTIONS

Labour’s Bid for City Seats

NOMINATIONS CLOSE ON WEDNESDAY' LABOUR i.s making a strong bid for City Council seats. and of the 25 nominations in the hands of the Returning Officer, Mr. P. F. Notlev. at noon to-day, 11 are for Labour candidates. Some interesting contests are promised in the Hospital Board, Harbour Board and Waitemata Power Board, as well as in those of various suburban councils.

nomination of Mr. T. Bloodworth, Labour candidate for the Mayoralty of Auckland, was put in on Saturday. His was the first. Mr. Blood worth is also nominated for tiie Harbour Board and City Council. The last-mentioned nomination is under a clause in the Act which allows a candidate to stand for Mayor and councillor, and in the event of him being unsuccessful in the former he has a chance of being returned to the council, instead of missing in both cases as Mr. Bloodworm did last year when he was nominated only for the Mayoralty. A candidate of some interest is Mr. E>. Donaldson, a brother of the retiring Mayor of Newmarket, and once Mayor of Waihi.

The list of nominations for the City Council in the order received is as follows: —Messrs. John Dempsey, Hallyburton Johnstone, J. A. C. Allum, T. Bloodworth, R. F. Barter, FT. G. Staley, Hugh Campbell, Miss Alice M. Cassie, Messrs. J. Purtell, J. H. K. Kealy. D. Donaldson. G. G. Ashley. F. W. Matthews, Miss Edna G. Macky, Messrs. H. Woodroft, J. H. B. Paterson, F. TV. Schramm, G. L. Brett, James Grace, J. T. Jennings, J. O. Liddell, J. IT. Ansell, P. J. Goldfinch, M. J. Coyle and J. H. S. Adeane. A deputation from the Grafton Ratepayers’ Association, headed by Mr. F. Nicholson, and including Messrs. R. McVeagh, H. Coldicutt. A. J 3. Chappell, E. Crawsliaw, J. IT. Ansell. J. Stewart, IT. Richards, and C. A. Allan, waited upon Mr. J. F. Shanly requesting him to accept nomination as councillor at the forthcoming election of the Auckland City Council. Mr. Shanly acceded to the request, and thanked the deputation for the confidence thus placed in him. HOSPITAL BOARD Mr. J. Dempsey, a member of the Hospital Board, lias been nominated, together with three women representing Labour interests —Mrs. Cassie. Mrs. M. M./Dreaver, and Mrs. Ivy McCready. HARBOUR BOARD The four nominations so far received for the. Auckland Harbour Board are Messrs. T. Bloodworth, J. B. Johnston, G. L. Brett, and E. W. Inder. The Harbour Board elections promise to be more interesting this year than usual. The present chairman. Mr. Hugh Mackenzie, will have opposition in his Franklin district for the first time for 16 years. The opponent will be Mr. Ebenezer Allen. The representative for the HamiltonN gar uawah ia- Te A warn u tu - Ga mbrid ge area will also have to overcome opposition. Mr. G. Parr, the previous representative, died recently, and the seat is being contested by Messrs. J. E. Tidd and R. T. Reid, of Hamilton. Mr. S. Saul hr oy (Ngaruawahia) is a possible candidate. The North Shore seat on the Har-

hour Board will be contested by Mr. A. E. Greenslade, who will oppose the sitting member, Mr. Hisiop. of Devonport. WAITEMATA POWER BOARD Alterations in the representation j have created :i new position in the election of the Waitemata Power Board. The combinations of boroughs will be broken up. Devon port will return three members, Taka puna two. Northcote and Birkenhead one each. New Lynn one, and Waitemata County three. Helensville will in future be linked with Henderson and Glen Eden. The nominations in hand or promised are: . - Devonport.—S. E. Hennings, G. Lievithick and T. Walsh. A 1 Takapuna.—W. J. Uaydon. M. Thompson, T. Guiniveri and A. White. J ' Birkenhead.—E. C. Walton. W. B. Dariow. B. H. 1.. Moiler and J. P. MtFhail. , , - Northcote.—A. B- Greenslnde. New T.ynn.—W. T.. Titchener, I. Hughes, H. Oakley Brown. SUBURBAN SEATS FIGHT AT NEWMARKET This morning a “ticket’ of nine was announced and nominated tor the Newmarket Borough Councii, . 1 This "ticket” will be in opposition to the seven councillors who \otea aiuinst the Mayor on the present council. The Mayor, Mr. S. Donaldson, has been nominated again. . The ticket contains the to now mg names- C. Mountain, T. 'Watts, XV. J. Jeffrey. R. T. Michaels, R. E. Newpoit W Hughes. T. C. Latham. A. 1 . Wic kens and AY. Mason. devonport retirements The present Mayor of Devonport, Mr. K. Aldridge, is not likely to have oppo the council Messrs. C. M. Browne, I. Massey, H. A. CampbeH and T C D aright have announced that they 'will not enter the contest. The nominations are: *. J - fT don, XV. S. Campbell, fa. F,™. 1. Walsh, J. Tlislop, AA-. 1, Taj lor. it. Barnhill and XV. D. Meiklejohn. Mr a H. Greenslade has> consented n to contest the Northcote Mayoralty, and there is some suggestion that there will be opposition. U °The whole of the old council is being re-nominated, excepting Mr A J. Lennon. Mr. J. C. George will he a candidate. MOUNT EDEN Mr B. IT. Potter has been nominated for the Mayoralty o£ Mount Eden. So far there have been no nominations for the council. , Mr. Potter and Mr. J. Rowe, who at present represent Mount Eden and Mount Albert on the Hospital Board, have been re-nominated. TAKAPUNA COUNCIL

Another candidate, Mr. Bryce Hart, has been nominated for the Takapuna Borough Council. Mi. J- coie o ro\e has also consented to become a candi-darhei-e is some doubt whether Mr. A. M-. Gould, an ex-Mayor, and member of the present council, will go to the poll, but it is. not yet certain that Mi, A. M Sloman, the present chairman of the Finance Committee, will not again do so.

BIRKENHEAD BOROUGH

There i.s every prospect of an exceptionally keen contest for seats on the Birkenhead Borough Council at Unforthcoming local body elections. Three further nominations have been received for council seats, m air. H. A. Campbell, Mr. Jackson Iverruisli and Mr. J. Prickett. Mr. Campbell has been a inembei o the evonport Borough Council tot the past two years, and during that time he has acted a.s Devonport s representative on the water board. He is now residing at Birkenhead. ATr Kerruish is a solicitor, of AucKland,'and Mr. Prickett is manager, of Paper Bags, Ltd., of Auckland. Theie are rumours of several other nomma-