MUNICIPAL CONTESTS

Taranaki Daily News, 20 April 1929, Page 6

MUNICIPAL CONTESTS

PRESENT MAYOR UNOPPOSED. 11 COUNCILLORS FOR 9 SEATS. Contests for seats on the Hawera Borough Council and the poll on the half-holiday question will infuse some life into this year’s municipal elections on May 1. Interest may be gauged by the fact that the general roll contains the names of 2173 voters and- that nearly 1500 voters’ names have been included in the supplementary roll. Last election no contests took place for seats, and the half-holiday question was not in issue. The present Mayor, Air. E. A. Pacey, will not be opposed. Sitting members on the South Taranaki Power Board, Patea Harbour Board and Hawera Hospital Board have again been nominated, and no opposition is in the field. Eleven councillor candidates have been nominated for Hawera borough. Mr. R. H. Leeee was the only retiring member. 4 The three new candidates are Messrs. A. K. Tyson, company, secretary, S. R. Veitch, public accountant, and A. K. North, solicitor.

Tho nominations are:— For Mayor. Ernest Arthur Pacey, nominated by B. C. Bennett, P. T. Donnelly, J. M. Townsend, Ed. Morrissey and R. H. Reece.

Borough Councillors. Edward Morrissey, nominated by M. F. Purser and" C. 0. Ekdalil. Alexander Reid, nominated by A. B. Burrell and M. Barraclouglk William Gardiner Simpson, nominated by D. McCormick and F. Gillanders. William Butler, nominated by Athol Grant and S. Adamson. James M. Townsend, nominated by C. D. Arlidge and E. A. Pacey. William G. Walkley, nominated by E. Dixon and R. H. Leece. George John Bayley, nominated by E. M. Bcechey, B. C. Bennett and R. H. Leece. William George Strange, nominated bv E. A. Pacey and R. H. Leece. 'These arc all sitting members. New candidates are: — Albert Kemball Fyson, nominated by E A. Pacey and L. A. Bone. Alfred Kingsley North, nominated by H. G. Dickie, M.P., and E. Dixon. Stephen Robert Veitch, nominated by E. Dixon and J. C. Smith. No elections will be necessary in the under-mentioned representations:- — Harbour Board. _■ Samuel Blake, nominated by E. Dixon and E. K. Cameron. Hospital Board. Francis Gillanders, nominated by P. O’Dea and E. Dixon. William Gardiner Simpson, nominated by D. McCormick and F. Gillanders. Power Board. Ernest Arthur Pacey, nominated by M. F. Purser and W. G. Strange. Leonard Alfred Bone, nominated by B. C. Bennett and W. G. Strange.

HAWERA SCHOOL AFFAIRS.

MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE,

A roll number of 636, as against 628 at the end of March, and an average attendance for the past two weeks of 587, as against SSI for March, were reported by, Mr. F. A. Bates, headmaster of tho'Hawera Main School at the last committee : meeting of . tlie> year on Thursday evening. The new heaters were in use in the school. Most of the desks'the children had received were unsatisfactory. Many had suffered at the hands of past generations of . boys. He strongly recommended the committee to work for gradual replacement of desks with tables and chairs which were far superior in many ways. The school library was. being used regularly for individual study. ' A debit of £52 Os 3d in the capitation account had been turned into a debit of £l4 9s Hd during the year—an improvement of £37 19s 4d, largely due. to the school ball success. An expression of appreciation is to he conveyed to the ladies who co-operated in raising funds for the new infant school. The sum of £ll4 had been the result. The incoming committee is to be recommended to form the ladies into a sub-committee with a voice in the expenditure of the amount. Congratulations to Dr. W. M. Thomson were extended by the committee on his gaining the Taranaki Education Board seat for South Taranaki. It would ho a strain, said Dr. Thomson, but he would do his best.

AGED MAORI FOUND DEAD.

The naked body of a Maori lying on its back on the grass was found by Mr. Allan Robertson, a neighbouring farmer at Matapu, on Sunday evening last, after he had become suspicious that something was amiss. He had seen the door of George Putu’s whare open for two or three days. Putu, or Rauru Whatitiri, aged about GO years, had been living alone since the death of his wife. At an inquest yesterday at Hawera, the jury found death was due to heart disease following influenza. Medical evidence was given by Dr. McGhie. The bed was found by Constable Pidgeon to have been slept in and it was surmised that Putu had gone for a drink or to wash as he was lying near a tub of. waiter with a shawl across his lower limbs.