MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 495, 30 April 1909, Page 6

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

THE LATEST FICURES; Some slight alterations in the City Mayoral and council figures have had' to be made* Mr. Wilford's total is now 4240, leaving.him 283 ''behind 'Dr.'' Newman'. ',■ , <A.mistake'of. 100;. votes was made.on two occasions in. connection:,with'. the ,New; Centuryi Hall results. ■;The] figures for the top council candidates ''were] given as'i^v' 'Luko ■„.'■'■ . .;. '. : ■■. ; ;.!l 'V...' ■■'.£:'. 8074 ; , Ballinger '/■/•:';....; £:'.'.: '. ... ■':;." 7218 Fletcher. ■: '.■„."'' /..-. ,' ... ;.'.; 7156 . The actual figures are':—- '■•:• ,Luke '•.!:. : :;. ; ;?.' ... : - ' .V;'-. 8074 .'.'Fletcher :■;-,':...■":..■'."•■ ... .'..■ 7256 . .Ballinger, ...:,; ... ■ /:....'■. . ...: 7218 '. Mr.' Luke remains senior councillor, but with Mr. Fletcher second arid Mr. Ballinger third.', ::.:■,: ' •. ..;,, "' ;: ... . The 'votes for. Mr. Cohen w6ro r :given as 6346/ but the total' should, bo 6446,, and ho thus, takes sixth place. . . ' Thoiformal installation of tho Mayor-elect will take-place on' Wednesday at_ noon,-when Dr.' Newman will, assume the reinsof ofßco, for,, in the strict sense, .Mr. Hislopis Mayor until,', the-installation ol: .his;successor.-, The ; councillors' take,, office merely. by signing a"i declaration in the presence of the. Mayor, or a councillor, 1 and the Town Clerk. No •s^ecial/date'.is' specified ; - ../'Tho'fuial'result of' the- City Council.election was .received /by, .the Returning Officer, (Mr,. James', Ames),, at: 1.20. am., yesterday, as against about 11 p.m,'two years ago, when 38 candidates' stopd, v and there were then less polling booths,' and only,, 8621' electors went to the'poll. A' delay of; over an hour was caused by one booth. LABOUR COMMENTS. , The;defeat of. the Hon, 'J.- Rigg at the Mayoral election .was, the subject' of • some comment at the 'trades'and Labour Council last night. '■■■■. ./,' -"" : ' ' Mr. 1). J. Conchio (secretary of the Labour Representation' ;Cominittee) said tho small polling, for Mr.' Rigg was a disgracoto Labour, and. he felt ashamed of'the workers of the city. The, lowest of the; Labour candidates for the City Council polled 1940, and yet a man like: Mr. Rigg onlv received 824 votes. .:''/*!'■• ;'■'',.■ <■ : ,1' '■: •■ Mr.fW..T.. Young said the result was'not only a disgrace to the workers of Welling--1 ton,,it was a most supreme disgrace to the Labour Representation Committee. -' : After ;telling tho 'Trades Council, that they,had decided, no't to.contest the Mayoralty, they three weeks later asked Mr; Rigg to, stand. It was 1 , bowoyer,'satisfactory that the Labour voto for the council -'■ contest had increased considerably. . ■ ~. ' .■ 1' ' LOWER HUTT. ' Unusual animation characterised * tho Lower Hutt elections, chiefly on account of the great interest taken in the Mayoral contest. Mr. Bunny; the new. Mayor, ■ had" been a councillor prior to 1901, in which year he succeeded Mr.;' Foster.'as for part of; a year. He was beaten at the next contest. by : Mr. Ortpn Stevens,, .and. was not again; a' candidate' this year.;' A new feature at the election was the, great array of motor-cars, of which; nearly a score wero in use. Mr.. Purser was returning: officer, it, was the most oxciting election since 1901, the year, of the first election ..under'the now Act, The voting papers, handed out'numbered 1320, out of a roll of,about 2200. : The result of tho Mayoral contest was announced in yesterday's issue. Tho vntiug for Borough Councillors, was as follows:— H. Baldwin (sitting member}' ... : 898 F.:do J. Clero (former member) ... 818 Dr., Anson (new. member).... ..'. 804 , ; A. Macaskill (now) ... . ~. ... 771. ■'•.' H. J5. Itempthorn (new) ...,'... 751' G. F.;Pearco (now) ... ■ .... '..'.''.' 74.3 W., A. Mowbray (new) ... ... 710 :J. L. Harlow (new) ... .:•... ;671 •' E.: Hayes (former) .... ■~... ...571' ,• M,' J. Hodgins (sitting) ... .... 510 E. J. Harrison (new) i ... v;. 471 '. J. K. Powell (new) ... ... ... 423 O. J'. Maule (now) .... ... .:.( r -3&5 The firs*; nine candidates,wore elected. A number of candidates at'the elections have availed' themselves of our advertising columns to return thanks: to their jupportera. ':'■'