TO-DAY'S ELECTION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 767, 16 March 1910, Page 8

TO-DAY'S ELECTION.

HOSPITAL AND CHARITABLE AID BOARDS, AN IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITY.

The election of the new combined Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards under the Act passed last session will take place to-day. The Wellington Board will nnite the functions hitherto discharged by the Hospital Board, Hospital Trustees, Charitable Aid Board, and Benevolent Trustees. In view of these heavy responsibilities, and the. importance of beginning the new system under the most favourable auspices, it is most desirable that the electors in large numbers should take the -trouble to record, their votes, with a view to electing the strongest possible board. Every citizen whose name is on the municipal roll - is competent to vote. The hours of voting are from 9 a.m. till 6 p,m. ■ ,

WELLINGTON, KARORI, Am?. A\rA T? Twenty members axe required to form the new- board for the Wellington district. The electors of Wellington City, Ivarori, and Miramar are called upon to appoint fourteen of these members. Twenty-three candidates offer themselves for the fourteen seats, as follows— AITKEN, John Guthrie Wood. •ANSON, George Edward. BAYLIS, George Henry Brett. ■ BORGHETTI, Emilio. ! CAMPBELL, Duncan. CASTLE, Frederick. DEVINE, James Joseph. EVANS, Rev. William Albert.. FITZGERALD,- John Edward. GODBER, James. GORDON, Solomon. 1 HINDMARSH, Alfred Humphrey. KIRK, Richard Clement.; LONDON, George Thomas. • M'LAREN, David. NASH, George. REARDON, Michael John. RICHMOND, Mary Elizabeth. - ROBERTSON, David SMITH, John SMITH, Thomas! TREVOR, James. VAN STAVEREN, Rev. Herman.

Polling Places. Polling-places are as follow?— -Wadestown, Social Hall, Pitt Street. : Northland, Churchroom. Sydney, Street, St.- Paul's Schoolroom.. Panama Street, .Tu'rubiill's Auction

Room. , , Town Hall, Cuba Street. Rechabite Hall, Manners Street. Druids' Hall, Taranaki Street. Victoria Hall, 'Adelaide Road. St. Thomas's Schoolroom, Riddiford Street. Island Bay Schoolroom, Island Bay. Marnnui Tea Rooms, Queen's Drive. O'Donnell's Hall, Kilbirnie. ' Roseneath 'Schoolroom,. Roseneath. Aro Street Churchroom. ' " Kelburne Churchroom, Upland Road. Brooklyn, Pullford's Hall. Worser Bayj Mr, Wyatfg Tea Rooms.Miramar, Mr. Mair's Post Office Store. Karori Borough Council Office, Karori .Road. . ' • ■ Dominion Tea Rooms, Karori Road.

PETONE. . One ' member is required! to represent the Petone district. The candidates are: Messrs. J.W. M'Ewan (Mayor of Petone), R. W. Short, and W. Inglis. The pollingplaces are the'Korokoro Schoolroom and St. Augustine's Hull, Petone.

HOROWHENUA AND LEVIN.. Two representatives are required for the 'combined district of the Horowhenua County, Mo&ara County, and Levin Borough'i Messrs. F. : W. Venn, A. H. Rollo, W'. Tompsitt, and B. -R. Gardener are tho candidates.

ALREADY ELECTED. Messrs. Frank Thomas Moore (Onslow and Johnsonville), William Galloway (Hutt County and Upper Hutt Town District), and Henry Baldwin (Lower Hutt and Eastbourne) have been declared elected without opposition for those districts respectively. . . . .