LOCAL ELECTIONS

Waikato Independent, Volume XIX, Issue 1892, 17 April 1917, Page 5

LOCAL ELECTIONS

V TWCf CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR. contest foe council. - .t—laminations closed at noon yoster'.day with Mr F. J. Brooks (returning dffi<er) for the positions of H;- ' Cambridge, nine members of the Cam-hrWlge:-Borough Council, and one mem-' M . berof tie AVaikato Hospital and Charr-' ' itable Aicl Board to represent the comE'-. bined districtsof the Boroughs of GamTe AjvhniulTl and Te Aroha and own, District of Morrinsville, ' - W. G. Care and E. J. Wilkin- ■ ;son were nominated for the office of Mayor of Cambridge, and an election , will therefore’be held on Wednesday, April 25th. -- The requisite number of candidates . . i (nine) were nominated for the Oam- ; bridge Borough Council, and they have accordingly been declared elected. Of nine Councillors, Messrs H. Alan . H. Bycroft, H. D. Dallimore, Priestley are members of the old Council, Mr T, F. Richards was pre- ' /viously a member, and Messrs Henry Bell, A. W, Gane, H. Roche and F. C. Thomason are talcing seats on the Borough Council for the first time.

. Mr G. Dickinson, being the only, canIflidate for the Hospital Board, has been xe-elected a member of the Board. The full list of candidates and nominators is as follows: — . Mayoralty of Cambridge. William George Care;, nominated by t P. J. Turney and R. W. Magill. Edward John Wilkinson; nominated Hen §y Alan Bell and Frederic Potts, craubridge Borough Council. F. Richards; nominated by Stanaway and Harold H. U^Tlpeight.. Henry Bell; nominated by W. G. *1 ipare and C. H. Bycroft. . Y Charles Herbert Bycroft; nominated by E. J. Wilkinson and A. AV. Gane. 1 Henry Dickens Dallimore; nominated A by George E. Clark and E. J. Wilkin- ;| don. / Henry Alan Bell; nominated by E. J. Wilkinson and John Ferguson. ■ . Charles Hermon Priestley ; nominated by torge Calvert and E. J. 'Wilkinson. Henry nominated by W. G. Care and-E- J. AVilkinson. Alfred William Gane; noxuinated by George E. Clark and C. H. Priestley. Frederick Charles Thomason; nominated by W. G. Care and E. J. AYilkinson. Waikato Hospital' Board. George Dickinson; nominated by J. B. Teasdale, G. H. Ollard, James Hally, pad E. N. Souter.