LOCAL ELECTIONS

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 99, 21 April 1933, Page 2

LOCAL ELECTIONS

The Hastings Borough WIDE SELECTION OFFERED THE HARBOUR BOARD POSITION With the closing yesterday of nominations for local body elections at Hastings, a problem has been pre-, sented to electors. On May 3 those Who go to the polling booths will be called upon to fill the nine vacancies on the Hastings Borough Council from a list of twenty-four candidates, including six from the retiring council, Messrs. T. Donovan, F. E. Smith and C. H. Slater not seeking reelection. The Mayor (Mr. G. F. Roach) will be opposed by Mr G. A. Maddison, •who at one time held the office. There are no other nominees. There will be six contenders for two available seats on the Napier Harbour Board. HASTINGS MAYORALTY GEORGE’FREDERICK ROACH. ALFRED GEORGE MADDISON. HASTINGS BOROUGH COUNCIL (Nine Required) Algernon Inston Rainbow, Septimus Ashcroft, Joseph Stickland, Thomas Sanderson Dobson, John Maclean, James Banks, Graham William Bernard McCormick, Percy Ellis

Loach, Frank Hilton Bastin, Thomas Earl Lindsay, James Franklin Simmons, Samuel Jackson McKee, Robert Henderson, Peter Marius Cohr, Robert Baker, Wilfred Theodore Chaplin, Thomas. Falconer, Eric Cecil Little, John Anderson Miller, Arthur Francis Redgrave, William Rigg, Archibald Lowe, Arthur Jones, Ralph Ewart Barley. NAPIER HARBOUR BOARD (Two Required) i Herbert Iftwfo Grainger, Robert

Douglas Brown, Robert Baker, Peter Marius Cohr, William Richmond, George Chailoner Tripe. H.B. POWER BOARD (Two Required) Leonard James Harvey, Septimus Ashcroft. H.B. HOSPITAL BOARD (Two required) Cecil Duff, Samuel Jackson McKee. I • OTHER NOMINATIONS I — ! Eketahuna: Mr. W. Simpson was re-elected Mayor unopposed. There / are nine nominations for the six seats | on the council and two nominations ' for the one borough representative on the Power Board. Timaru: There are three candidates for the Mayoralty—Messrs. T. W. Satterthwaite (sitting Mayor), A. Kennedy and W. Angland. Nineteen nominations were received for the council (nine required), six for the Hospital Board (3), four for the Power Board (3), four for the Harbour Board (3), and five for the High School Board (4).

New Plymouth: Mayoral nominations are H. V. S. Griffiths (sitting) and E. R. C. Gilmour. There are seventeen nominations for eight seats on the council, five for two seats on the Harbour Board, and ten for four seats on the Hospital Board. Christchurch: A record total of 43 candidates have been nominated for 16 seats on the City Council, representing Citizens, Labour, Socialist and Communist. The sitting Mayor, Mr. D. G. Sullivan, is opposed by Mr. L. C. Walker, Independent. There Is an old but true saying— A man that doesn't advertise !• like a man winking in the dark. He knows what he’s doing but no one else does.