DAIRY BOARD ELECTION

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 16 June 1933, Page 4

DAIRY BOARD ELECTION

CHANGES IN PERSONNEL

MR. GREEN WINS. WARD FOUR.

.SUBSTANTIAL MARGIN -GIVEN.

PROVISIONAL COUNT DECLARED.

Three vacancies for producers’ representatives on tlie New Zealand Dairy Produce Export Board were filled at elections held yesterday. Last evening’s provisional count of the ballot papers indicated the defeat of two retiring members, Mr H. D. Chapman and Mr J. Hine, and the election of Mr C. P. Agar and Mr W. C. G. Green to take their, place. The third retiring member, iMr C. L. Luke, was re-elected by a substantial majority. The official recount of the votes will be commenced immediately.

Votes are allocated on a tonnage basis and despite this somewhat complicated system of voting the returning officer, Mr P. Granger, and his assistants at Wellington had the counting of the -ballot papers completed at a relatively early hour, last night. Polling was by a system of postal voting and the ballot papers were returned to Mr Granger by noon yesterday. . The provisional count gives the results of the voting as follows: —

WARD 7. Tonnage votes. C. P. Agar, Christchurch 167 T. Mould, Little River 120 *H. T. Chapman, Little River .. 19 H. Bliss, Heathcote '• 0 J. W. Kime, Spring,ton : 0 H. W. Mclntosh, Spri'ngton ... 0 WARD 3. *C. L. Luke, Te Puke 896 ■S. A. Ferguson, Matumaoko ... 391 WARD 4 W. C. G. Green, Rahotu . 257* 11. E. Blyde, Lepperton 208* .11. Graham, Midhirst .... 113 G. Trotter, Stratford 97J L. J. Rundlc, Ben Block ...... 84* J. F. Ritchie, Inglewood 0 *J. Hine, Waitara ® * Retiring members.

Ward 7 comprises that part of Canterbury north of the Rakaia River, Marlborough, Nelson and Westland. Ward 3 consists of the eastern Waikato, Thames Valley and Bay of Plenty districts. Ward 4 comprises the North Taranaki district, which includes the counties of Clifton, Inglewood, Taranaki, Stratford, Egmont, Eltham, and Whangamomona. The election is determined by tonnage votes allotted to each company in accordance with the quantity of butter and cheese exported by that company from a factory or factories within the ward during the preceding 12 months ended March 31. A, candidate might receive a majority of suppliers’ votes, but. not necessarily be elected. The candidate who receives the greatest number of valid votes from, the suppliers to the factory or factories of any company is on tiffed to receive all the tonnage votes allotted to that company. If two or more candidates receive an equal number of tonnagfe votes, the candidate is declared to be elected who has the greatest number of suppliers’ votes. The voting strength of factories is determined as follows: One vote for every 20 tons or part thereof up to 5000 tons exported is allotted to factories. After the 500 tons export mark has been reached, every additional. 30 tons carries an extra vote. The voting powers- of cheese factories are computed on the same basis, except that two tons of cheese are computed as one ton of butter.