Municipal Elections

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 641, 18 April 1929, Page 1

Municipal Elections

CANDIDATES FOR HONOURS

Mr. Potter Unopposed for Mt. Eden

Nominations closed at noon to-day for the positions of Mayors and councillors for the Mount Eden and Mount Albert boroughs. Mr. E. H. Potter is returned unopposed as Mayor of Mount Eden, but there will be a contest at Mount Albert. In two of the Mount Albert wards no election of councillors will be necessary, but the electors in these wards will have to vote on the Mayoralty issue. The nominations are :

MOUNT EDEN Mayor. —Mr. E. H. Potter. Council (12 vacancies). —Messrs. W. Woolley, J. Smith, J. P. Hooton. S. Newcombe, A. M. Bryden, L. Joll, G. Lu Taylor. J. M. Melville, W. G. Lange, R. McK. Morrison, E. Stevenson, A. C. Upton, W. W. King, S. E. Chappell, A. P. Hartnoll, R. Hoppy, R. J. Mills, W. H. Nagle, F. L. Rendell. Hospital Board (two vacancies for combined district). —Messrs. E. H. Potter, J. Rowe and L. W. Holt. Harbour Board (one vacancy).—Mr. G. B. Clay. MT. ALBERT Mayor: Messrs. L. E. Rhodes and R. £. N. Matthews. Council: —A Ward (two vacancies): Messrs. J. Carrie, P. Floyd, W. D. Fulton, W. G. Russell. B Ward (two vacancies): Messrs. L. Brigham and G. E. Carr. C Ward (two vacancies): Messrs. A. A. Buckley, F. M. Evitt, J. H. Langley, H. A. Miles and F. Pickering. I) Ward (two vacancies): Messrs. 11. L. Kayes and J. Taylor. HARBOUR BOARD In the main the Harbour Board will be re-elected on May 1. The board hen 15 members, of whom one is a Government appointee. The city provides five. North Shore boroughs one, Newmarket'. Onehunga and contiguous local bodies one, ML Eden and Mt. Albert one, Franklin ani Manukau one, and the Hamilton area one. Payers of ships' dues elect twD, and payers of other dues one. All these will be subject to the election except the Government nominee, whose term expires this month. One' representative each from the Waikato counties and Waitemata and Mt. Roskill combined will also require to be elected almost immediately, their terms expiring in May. HOSPITAL BOARD The city provides five of the 12 members of the Hospital Board, Newmarket and Onehunga and contiguous local bodies two, North Shore boroughs one, Franklin area one, Manukau County and internal bodies *one, Waitemata County and internal bodies one, and the remaining local bodies in the old Eden County one. Not all of these are elected at one time. Town boards elect their representatives at the same time as their own board, and a result of this has just been discovered in that Mr. M. J. Coyle, who has just retired from the Hospital Board, should have retired a year ago, the returning officer for his area overlooking the fact. Mr. W. K. Howitt has been returned nnopposed as representing the North Shore boroughs. The Rev. W. C. Ward, of Otahuhu, has been nominated for the Manukau County area. NORTHCOTE Nominations for the positions of Mayor and councillors of the Northcote Borough Council close at noon to-mor-row. In addition to the eight members of toe retiring council, who have intimated their intention of seeking reelection, the following have signified that they will offer their services: Messrs. P. Cross, A. Facer. C. W. J. Taylor and H. V. George. Further nominations may be forthcoming. Mr. J. B. Tonar has also announced K* n^e , n^on °f contesting the seat on the Waitemata Power Board as Northcote representative, in opposition to the sitting member, Mr. A. E. Ureenslade, Mayor of Northcote. OTHER CENTRES "ALMERSTON NOMINATIONS Press Association PALMERSTON N., Wednesday. Mr. A. J. Graham, sitting Mayor, and Mr. R. Edwards, an ex-Mayor, have been nominated for the Mayoralty. Sixnominees will contests the nine seats on the council. PETONE’S MAYOR Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. The Mayor of Petone, Mr. I). McKenzie. has again been returned unopposed as Mayor. OTAKI Mayor.—?£r. C. T. Atmore, W. H. Bowden. Council (six seats).—Messrs. T. O’Rourke. W. B. Smith, E. S. Morse, H. Cockrell. J. McGill and H. Palmer . elected unopposed. Power Board. —Mr. E. S. Morse re- ; elected unopposed. WANGANUI Keen interest is being taken in the ; kxai municipal elections. There are j

j three candidates for the Mayoralty, j Messrs. W. J. Rogers (the present : Mayor), Hope-Gibbons and John Morrison. Twenty-three have been nominated for the council. WAIHI There being no opposition for the Mayoralty, the present Mayor, Mr. W. M. Wallnut, is re-elected. Mr. W. J. Brown has been returned unopposed as the Waihi representative on the Thames Harbour Board* For the six seats on the Borough Council there are nine nominations, as follow:—Messrs. C. F. Butcher, A. E. Robinson, T. G. Short, S. H. Walmsley, and • Mrs. S. F. Williams (sitting members), and Messrs. H. W. Hopkins, A. Leach, J. F. Robertson and R. Walsh. For the nine seats on the Hospital Board there were ten nominations: Messrs. S. H. Brown, J. Kemp, J. I). McFarlane, B. Pascoe, F. Raddings, A. E. Robinson, J. E. Slevin and Mrs. S. F. Williams (sitting members), and Messrs. J. W. Meiklejohn and J. F. Robertson. MORRINSVILLE Morrinsville Borough nominations are: Mayor: Mr. William McPherson, elected unopposed for a second term. Thames Valley Power Board: Mr. John Manchester Allen, elected unopposed. Borough Council (six seats) : Messrs Bertie Chapman, Fred Donald, Thomas Edmond Martin, William Morrice, Cecil M. G. McDavit.t, Wm. Reason, Thomas J. Ryan, Frank Walton Wilkes. * Waikato Hospital Board: Mr. Thomas Edmond Martin lias been nominated for the combined boroughs of Te Awamutu, Cambridge, Morrinsville and Te Aroha, in opposition to Mr. Allan Bell ROTORUA Nominations for the Rotorua Borough Council election are: Mayor: Messrs. C. H. Clinkard, M.P., T. Jackson, C. R. Tapper. Council (seven seats): Messrs. O. H. Coleman, A. W. Downer, W. Galbraith, C. G. Hodgson, E. T. Johnson, J. B. Morison, H. L. Musgrave, A. Smith, G. Steele, N. Urquhart, L. Wolliams. Tauranga Harbour Board (one seat): Messrs. C. H. Clinkard and A. G. Cottrell. Waikato Hospital Board: Mr. W. Hill. TAUMARUNUI Mayor: Messrs. C. A. Boles, G. E. Manson, G. F. Thompson. Council: Messrs. S. Bishara, P. C. Brew, C. W. Davis, A. T. Drifiill, S. R. Dryland, j. N. Hayvey, J. W. Hutson, R. D. Lee, Mrs. R. Murray, Messrs. J. Pattieson, W. Sscator, Z. Simcock, D. M. Simmons, J. E. Ward, G. W. Wells. Hospital Board (two vacancies): Mr. R. F. Beautrois, Mrs. R. Murray, Mr. R. V. Pickin, Mrs. M. Walker, Mrs. J. E. Ward. Wanganui River Trust (two vacancies) : Messrs. C. A. Boles, G. E. Manson, and G. A. Stanton. TE AWAMUTU Mayoralty.—Messrs. Cecil Glass Downes, John Cecil Montefiore. Borough Council. —William Butterworth, Andrew Brown, Charles Arnold Finch. Gavin B. Gifford. George Spinley, Frederick James Gilbert, Herbert C. Rainey. The eight vacancies on the Borough Council attracted only seven nominations. and they were elected unopposed. Nominations will have to be called to fill the extraordinary vacancy. Power Board.—Messrs. William Butterworth, Cecil Glass Downes, John Cecil Montefiore, George Spinley. There are four candidates fo.r the two vacancies representing the Te Awamutu Electric-Power Board. The two sitting members are Messrs. J. C. Montefiore and G. Spinley. Mr. Downes was a former member of the board until two years ago. The Rev. W. But ter worth is a new candidate. NAPIER Mr. J. Vigor Brown has been returned unopposed for the Napier Mayoralty. INVERCARGILL Mayor: Messrs. John Miller. the : present Mayor, and John Daniel Camp- j bell, for four years a councillor. There are 16 nominations for 12 vacancies on the council. CHRISTCHURCH Mayoralty.—The Rev. J. K. j ♦ Labour, present Mayor), Mr. W. Hayward (Citizens’ Association). There are 32 candidates for the 16 seats on the council, including 14 Citizens’ Association representatives. Four of the latter are sitting. There are

12 Labour candidates, nine . sitting, and six Independents. Hospital Board. —17 candidates for eight seats. Harbour Board. —Nine candidates for four city seats. Elections are to be on the proportional representation system. GORE Mayor: Messrs. A. A. Mac Gibbon, W. D. Shelton, D. L. Popplewell, A. T. Sixteen candidates are offering for 12 seats on the borough council. There are three nominations for the one seat on the Southland Power Board, and two for the seat on the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. Mr. A. H. Aitken has been returned unopposed to the Bluff Harbour Board.