Candidates For Municipal By-Election

Chronicle (Levin), 2 April 1949, Page 4

Candidates For Municipal By--Election

"RATEPAYER." -

. (To1 the EditorJ Sir, — Is the Levin Ratepayers . Associatidfr d tf§iy sEfohg body^ numericahy and sufiiciently influeniial tOj.de dlo^ed to . tell ratepayers t Mi there vftll be no by-' .filectipn?, ^Is it not permissible,. for, . citizens to stahd against these1 selected men df vfonderful capabili'ties?' ' ; ^Referring to tftee . tinfiSnifhecF, wolrkj ! 6f tjid cdhheii, .1 '§d§geie thaitthe same position exists everywhere e'lse, irrtensihed bepa/trse Sij mknj prefer to talk ' rather than work; Our coUhcillo'rs,- bad ai they are; still bear comparison \vith others in # a like . pbsmdh. . I .. think, public b'bsitidhs should 6nlf be fil'led bV those who have rhade a success o| itherr .dwn -Cvhlk ih.fffe. •• . , Naturally we Will always hhve old people because residen.s return to '•Levin as ^fe'on &§ tfiejy 6an." As for I't'he rieh ahd the pdor ery, i sug,gest that if members of the Ratepayers' Association look round h littie more they wiil find . that^tihte h'oUMg hhvd heeh hetfered- at the expense of residents paying j heavy r&te$ ibr ih'ariy year& Fac- ' tory land was made, available sev-' eral years agd. Olfrer tb^ns had) old buildings, but Levin had none,

Yours etc.,

Levin, March 31. When the abo^e letter was referr'ed to the president of the 1 assobiatiorp 'Mr. •Hv Rippin, he said he ^uld 'hotf' difeclpsb its. member-7 , . sHg tro€ thatr tfid ai^peiajk(on. Would m ' due' cdhrs'e re|iiy- $6r-thfs letter. v Tridfe ll no. l'lniit " to tfie humberi : of elector§ Wfid may. b'd nominated to contest .an elec.tion or byrelec- = 'tion, Tfo^lded- he df .sfie il nomiri- , ated. by -at. least tv^o .other electors,' makes a. depdsit. of £3 in cash and signs. the,' nominatipn form accept,iit§. ricfifiiria|i'6h. * Afi.' Iledtdr ia a man or woman over the age of 21 who is (a) tfie dW'nef of a freehbld ; estate in land of a capital value of i not Idss tha-n £25.; or (b) is a rate-, . payer; pr (c) has resided in NeW ^Jedldnd fob ofie year ^lid tfie borough for the last three months,; ; and is a British subject by birth or naturalisation. Aliens, people of unsound mind and certain otherl are e^empt.-^rEditdfe- , ,