NEW BRIGHTON ELECTION

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 470, 3 June 1932, Page 8

NEW BRIGHTON ELECTION

Mayor Hopes Contest will be Avoided. Satisfactory arrangements have been made for the employment on relief works of three members of the New Brighton Borough Council who, on account of the Auditor-General’s ruling, have had to forfeit their seats on account of being on relief work and drawing pay through the borough office. The three ex-councillors are not now employed on council works and are contesting the by-election caused by their retirement. In discussing the arrangements which have been made to meet the position, the Mayor of New Brighton, Mr E. A. M. Leaver, said that he sincerely hoped that no other candidates would come forward at the by-election, as it* was hoped to avoid a contest on account of the costs involved. He pointed out that the three councillors concerned had been unseated on a technicality and had done nothing wrong. The Prime Minister, Mr Forbes, and the Minister of Employment, Mr Coates, had agreed with this view, and as Mayor of the borough he did not wish to see the district involved in the cost of an unnecessary election at the present time. Already the preliminary expenses had amounted to a considerable sum.