KEENLY CONTESTED MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN WELLINGTON—SCENES ON POLLING DAY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIX, Issue 19, 7 May 1913, Page 22

KEENLY CONTESTED MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN WELLINGTON —SCENES ON POLLING DAY.

between l the ’•ScMdanst 1 - or ’ ex't ivuh*' Labourite ei^nent 1 ’ au(l Vl ?lie >U reH\Vve?v Con “ < ’ er !? ln duirters to convert the Mayoral and municipal contests Into a trial of strength defeated in a record poll by Mr J. p Luke Nevertheless the I ibon • mn l \ tT.iiv ' ° section of the citizens. Mr McLaren, the retiring Labour Mayor of Wellington, was K ’ it. .1 ♦ « • * “ J uan secured more than double the support obtained at the previous election and dnntnrou lu a speech to the electors afterwards that he regarded It as someth.ng of a triumph. previous election, and declared