TO-MORROW'S ELECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3061, 24 April 1917, Page 9

TO-MORROW'S ELECTIONS

A FULL PROGRAMME

THE LIST OF NOMINATIONS

V i 5V n emy two years comes a da - v Q, • everj- P Erson i n tn ß community iwho is not a minor is just a little more [valuable.to tho city and State than he ,-i.s on any other day in the whole of that period, tor on that day it is his duty to ;select from ths lengthy lists of nomthoso who shall adminiator the |»ffairs of tho city and tho harbour, which in turn include' many avenues •of munioipal ondeavqur in which overy|«ne is more or loss directly interested. (On the'last Wednesday in every alterjßate April tho burgesses aro asked to j'Jiame thoir; Mayor, City Council, Har|lbour Board, and Hospital and Charitable' Aid Board~-on the one.day, presumably on the. score of economy. On jtth'e present occasion the duty will not rae quite so onerous as has been the lease as thero will bo no election for. JiMayor in the city, and in Miramar, 'Eastbourne aiid Karori thero wiii be.no (election of either- Mayor or .council, [.which, under the circumstances, is a j.rery happy arrangement. .There are several "tickets" being advocated by sections 'of' the- community, hut the interest ort the part of tho jpublio cannot be 1 said to be very great. Ixet the duty to "return,the best men is before tho-electors! and their choice jWill be awaited with sdme degree of exipectanfcy.' The following are the nominations .for the various offices in the different districts affected :— ; WELLINGTON" CITY. - '■ t There being no election for Mayor jtfMr. J. P. Luke Was. returned unopposed), the city electors will still be faced jhwth.'a treble duty,, viz., to return (those candidates whom they' deem to bo aitted for office to the AVellington City •Cbuncil, Wellington Hospital and CharStable Aid Board, and the AVellington Jfiarboiir Board, . : For the City Council the; following jhaye been nominated for .the .fifteen (Vacancies':—. \- .

'Atkinson,.'• Arthur Richmond.. ..-'• 'Barber, William Henr}-. Peter. 'Bennott, William Henrv. r ,'Bush, Thdffias.- ,: Castle," John.; \. • Chapman,-Charles Henry. Chilman, Charles William. -. "Fitzgerald, John Edward. .'Frost, George... Glover, John. ' .-'Godber, James. ■ 'HiMretb.. William Thomas, .. Holland, Henry Edward. ■•'-' ■ Hutchison, John. Jenkinfon, John Edward! .Kennedy, Edward.'. ; 'Luckie, Martin Maxwell Fleming, . M'Kenzie, James. 'M'Kenzie, Len. M'Parlaiid, Francis Eugene. Norwood, Charles John Boyd.: •Perry, Edward. Read, John.rj Shorland, John Olive. Swan, John Sidney.. • William .John. .-, 'Veitch, Alexander. .' . •; Wiles, William: . • *Wrighfc,_ Eoborfc Alexinde'r.'• 'Sitting members.

.For the Wellington- Hospital .and Charitable Aid Board (fourteen vacancies) the following are candidates:— • Aitken, Jessie. 'Beck,. Sarah.;. _ Burn, 'Benjamin George Henry. ■■■-• Campbell, Duncan. '•" ".'Castle,:Frederick. ; '..,,.. -■,-■'■''■■ Cloeh6fn/-Helen. </ ■ ■ - ■■ :: ' ■ Cook; Mary; " •'■■•■■.:• .Eagle) Thomas Alfred.

■ Elliott, James Kennedy. Hailowood, Beatrice. Luke, Charles Manloy. Macdonald, Flora. , Maddisoui Walter. . Miodema, Mary. M'Kenzie, James. M'Laren, Alberta Dungey. M'Lean, Flora. M'Vicar, Annie. Nash, George. Noill, Graoe. Pethorick, George Jennings. Read, John. • Smith, John. Snow, Sarah Ellen Olive. Thompson, Wilb'ara John. Van Stavcren, Herman, S'or. the four vacancies on the Harbour Board to be filled by popular vote the following candidates have been nominated: — Cable, William. Fletcher, Robert., < Hildrcth, William- Thomas. flindmarsh, Alfred Humphrey. . Norwood, Charles John Boyd. Wright, Robert Aloxander. LOWER HUTT. 11l the Lower Hutt Borough thero will be elections for both Mayor and council. For the' Mayoralty there have been nominated — "Henry Baldwin. Job.il Ball. , For the nine seats on the council the following candidates have been nominated :.— '~' John Brasell. Albert Carver. . Sydney Ulondoii. Walter Thomas Cotton. Alexander Gabriel Heron. Archibald John Hobbs. . -.-". Michael Joseph Hodgius. "William Kerr. John William Frank M'Dougall. Walter George Meldruni. Thomas Edward Shcil. " Henry Albert Ward. There will Ibo rio : election in. the bofougli for the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, -Mr. H. - Baldwin having been returned unopposed as the representative of the Lower Hutt and Eastbourne Boroughs. . PJSTOHE. Both Mayor and council have to be elected at Petoho. The nominations for the Mayoralty «ro— *J. -W. M'Ewan. . '.Alexander Anderson. For the council nominations have been accepted from the following;— -..- C. P. Brooklebank. \ ." . J. L. Churchouse. Ralph H. Jones.' William Seddon.- . J. Foster. P. E. Cairns. _ David "M'Kenzie. J. E. Tovey. / William Cox. James M'Dougall. S. J. Nowland. James Philip Gaynor. ' R. A. Hartley. In regard to the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, Mr. J. W. M'Ewan has been returned unopposed as the representative of the berou&h. A poll on the statutory half-holiday Question be taken at Potort© tomorrow.

ONSLOW. There will be elections hath for Mayor and council in tho Onslow Borough. The candidates for the Mayoralty are: ' *Colin C. Crump. ; James Murray, Dale. The councillors are elected on the Ward system. The nominees are as follow:— Alfred Ernest Budd James George Burt. ,- Edward Oowlcs. '> ■■'■ George Finn.Ernest Hobbs. . PercivalF. Hodgson.•

NGAIO (Three Seats). Will Appleton. H. Brenton-Rule. , Louis Alfred Browne'. "' Alfred Botheridge Topn. 15dwin George Tucker. ■ William .Watts. . ,- . (Three Seats). • Charles Bowden. v • James Caldwell Gardner. Alfred William Palmer. The Kaiwarra candidates have been declared ro-elcoted. MIRAMAR, EASTBOURNE, AND WADESTOWN. No elections for Mayor and council are necessary in the above boroughs. . miS COMBINED DISTRICT. For tho combined district, which includes the Lower and Upper Hutt, Petono,-Eastbourne, Miramar, Karori, Oilslow, Johpsonville, niid Makara artd Hutt Counties, there are three nomination's for tho two seats on tho Wellington Harbour Board. They aro:— [ 'John E. Fitzgerald. John W. M'linvan. Mi W: .Welch. For this election tho Town Clerk of Polofio (Mi. Gardner) is tho Itotuniinc Officer. b • THE HALF-HOLIDAY. The half-holiday issue is to bo put to tho electors in Fotone. As no petition to take a poll on this question was lodged in Wellington—wWft all &ro- now agreed that Saturday afternoon is tho proper day for the statutory halNholiday—there will bo no poll taken in the city.