THE IMPENDING BY-ELECTION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 908, 30 August 1910, Page 5

THE IMPENDING BY-ELECTION.

.;.:.■; ■:■■ .>:,;; / :?y :;;.;.;.■•/:;-:' .'. FOE THE CITY COUNCIL^ ,-■- Although nominations do not' close .-'■■ nntil'September 2, tho number of candi- -.' -,-, dates .who have announced their intention' . "'-of contesting l the.forthcoming by-election .', -to fill the seats.vacant'on the City Coun- '' . cil is already siifficie'nt to.ensure a brisk .-'■ contest, if all of them adhere .to'their iu- ' ientioh of seeking election. Candidates ' already announced are:.' Messrs. James Speed,-WV H. P. Burber.'K. W. J Cdle- ' ridge, Jaines Godber, H. H. Eayward, S. . .J. JUmm,- and V. Jensen. .Aprobable ' ■ candidate, as Mr. George Nathan.- ,■ , . A special-meeting' of .Trades'Council-re-. .' preventatives' and delegates from:outsido . . unions was called last evening with the object of selecting two Labour .candidates "- to contest' the vacancies. The proceedings lapsed,"however, owing to the fact that only twenty-nine deleg'ates attended, jrhereas the rules governing'the : proceed-, ', ings required the' presence, of a quorum ■ of thirty; The selection, of candidates was ... Hiereforo postponed until' Thursday even- ' |ing next. It is. tolerably certain that- two Labour candidates will be put forward. Among the candidates named above are a solicitor,.an "architect, a 1 consulting engineer, and a number of business nien, in ■ addition,to the oro'sp'ective Labour, aspir;ants. : ■-■■' y;:_., ,-, y- .'-.■ ,-•.■■ : .:'■-.■■