TRAMWAY BOARD POLL TO-MORROW.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19237, 26 November 1930, Page 14

TRAMWAY BOARD POLL TO-MORROW.

CONTEST WILL TAKE PLACE FOR ALL SEATS. * The triennial election of members of the Christchurch Tramway Board will take place to-morrow, the hours of polling being 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. There are contests for all the seats on the board, and the chief issue before the electors is whether the present administration of -the tramways is to be continued or whether the Labour Party is to secure control. All the sitting members of the board are seeking re-election, and in the central sub-district, for which there are five members to be returned, the Citizens’ Association and the Labour Party each have a full ticket nominated. The Citizens’ Association has not endorsed any candidates for the outside sub-districts, but in each case there are two candidates for the one vacancy to be filled. At the election held three years ago Mrs Elizabeth M’Combs, wife of Mr J. M’Combs, M.P., was the only Labour candidate returned. She was elected for the Hills-Sumner sub-district, defeating the Hon John Barr, M.L.C., who had been a member of the board for many ) r ears. In the central sub-dis-trict. Mr E. J. Howard, M.P., who polled the largest total of votes secured by a Labour candidate, was beaten by over 1100 votes. At the election in 1924, Mr J. M’Combs was only 202 votes behind the successful candidate who polled the smallest number of votes. Little Interest Aroused. There have not been any indications of intense public interest in the election, but if the voting corresponds with that at previous elections about a fifth of the electors can be expected to go to the poll to-morrow. The franchise is the same as that for municipal elections, and provision has been made for an elector to vote at any polling place in the tramway district. Thus a person residing at Riccarton may record his vote at a Sumner booth if it is more convenient for him to do so. , The Candidates. The following are the candidates, the sitting members being denoted by an asterisk: — CENTRAL SUB-DISTRICT. (Five Members to be Elected.) ♦Ernest Herbert Andrews (C.A.). ♦George Thomas Booth (C.A.). ♦William Hayward (C.A.). George Manning (Lab.). Robert Mafeking Macfarlane (Lab.). James M’Combs (Lab.). ♦Herbert Pearce (C.A.). Arthur Henry Scales (Lab.). Patrick Charles Webb (Lab.). ♦William Henry Williamson (C.A.). SPREYDON-ADDINGTON SUBDISTRICT. (One Member to be Elected.) ♦David Sykes. George Thomas Thurston (Lab.). RICCARTON-FENDALTON SUBDISTRICT. (One Member to be Elected.) Archibald Albany M’Lachlan. ♦John Wood. AVON-BRIGHTON SUB-DISTRICT. (One Member to be Elected.) John Nicholson Harle (Lab.). ♦Wilfred John Walter. HILLS-SUMNER SUB-DISTRICT. (One Member to be Elected.) Melville Edwin Lyons. ♦Elizabeth Reid M’Combs (Lab.).