THE ELECTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 95, 24 April 1911, Page 2

THE ELECTIONS.

i WEARING THE POLL. FINAL MEETINGS. The date / of the poll which is to decide who are to be managers of the city's affairs and who are to guide the fortunes of the Harbour Board for the next succeeding term, as well as those who are to attend to the needs and the advancement of the less important suburban areas, is rapidly approaching. On Wednesday next the fate of the candidates will be decided. Meantime those who have had the courage to get on the platform are busy speech-making in the hope that they will be amply xewaided. On Saturday night the Labour candidates were particularly active. Messrs. G. F. Reyling and Thomas Smith spoke at the corner of Pipitea-street. Thorndon, Mr. W. T. Young at the^outhern end of Tory-street, and Messrs. •D. M'Laren and E. J. Carey at the end of Courfcenay-place. In each instance the candidates spoke to large crowds. The Labour "ticket" will meet the electors in the New Century Hall this evening. Mr. John Fuller's combined committees met in Turnbull's Rooms on Saturday evening. About sixty were present, and it was reported that all were well pleased with the candidate's prospect of success. Mr. Fuller, in a brief address, thanked the committees for their generous work, and said he attributed the success of the meetings he had held to the fact that he propounded practical views. The electors were too wideawake to be gulled by catch- vote promises and idealistic municipal theories. The putting in hand at once of a townplanning scheme is one of the planks of Mr. E. Gallichan's platform, which appears in oui- advertising columns. Mr. Gallichan is opposed to any increase in Tates, urges that there should be an ' investigation of the electric lighting and management, and declares that there is need for an alteration in street cleaning. These and other planks in his programme he will more fully propound in his J address? to-nighfc, Mr. George Shirtcliffe, who has been a member of the City Council for some years, briefly outlines his policy in our advertising columns. He supports the extension of the Constable-street tramway, a definite scheme for gradual improvement of the. Town Belt, a rearrangement of the Zoo, municipal markets, and a reorganisation of the tramway traffic. Mr. Henry Bodley publishes an announcement in our advertising columns respecting his candidature for the council. _ He is opposed ■ to unnecessary restrictions on industry and enterprise.