MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1925, Page 1

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

GREY POWER HOARD. GREYAIOITII. April 30. J. O'Brien 87-1 J. NY. Greenslade Soil 1). Teimont 309 H. F. Doogan -183 H. J. Bignell •• JOG G. l’crotti 378 HUUXXF.II BOROUGH SKAT. The election for the Brunner Borough seal cm the Grey Power Board resulted : Walter Leiteh lot Sidney Fry UL Majority 4 liltFXXKlt ELECTIONS. MAYORALTY. F. Williams 152 F. F. Buustridge LG Informal *1 Majority 0 BOROUGH COUNCIL. Gilbert, Geo L 0 Smeaton, John l'l Fry, Sidney Lac Chetwynd, W 153 Morgan, NY HI Carso, NY LJB Harper L3o Nieoll 1-0 Dixon 1-3 CIIR r STC HUR C H .MAYORALTY [nv TELEoRArn —rER rrtuss association.] Cl IUTSTCIIC RCH, April 20. For the Mayoralty election the filial figures are:— Rev. J. K. Archer (Labour) ... 0060 J. A. Fleshcr (sitting Mayor, Citizens’) 7903 J. AY. Beanlaml (Imlepencleiit) 1400 Joseph Hamlet (Independent) 11-12 Majori I v for A relicr 1110 LYTTELTON MAYORALTY. P. K. Sutton '’>L W. T. Tester (silling) “23 AY. T. Foster '-’-11 p. G. Nnrien 132 i> aNGIDR A m a VORAI TY. (',-. It. AleTntosli 423 \Y. 11. Rows.- (Ailing) 381 ’l'he new* Mayor. Mr Archer, addressing the crowd, said lie look it that his election was, lirst of all. a victory for Idle Labour Fariy. and seenndly a victory for himself. At the call of Mr Sullivan, M.F.. three hearty cheers were- given lor the lirst Labour Alayor of Christchurch. Air Fleshcr received a mixed reception. and was only beard with dillieulty amidst a great uproar.

CITY COUNCIL. Ci I HLS'J'CT IURCH, April 30. The following have been elected to tile Christ: bin edi City Council: I). (1. Sullivan 1273!) Mrs McCombs 11709 A. \Y. Heaven 11619 AY. F. Lead ley 1158-1 E. 11. Andrews 11038 ('. P. Agar 11040 ci. \Y. B. Anclerson 10593 A. P. Carey 10713 K. b. Carr 10238 A. MeKellar 10238 C. T. Asc'linian 10233 A. 1). Ford 10232 J. X. Dufii 0833 F. R. Cooke 0004 T. 11. Butterfield 0381 \Y. J. Sim 0373 Eleven of these are representatives of tiie Citizens Association and live Labour Party. For llie Harbour Board, those elected to re; resent the. city are: 11. Holland (Citizens) 12337 I),-.' Thin her (I miep -iiileiit) ... 12233 11. T. Armstrong ( baboor) ... 11730 G. Sett (Citizens) 10341 The new Hospital Board contains three women members. The Food Reform candidates, Dovcreaux was second last oil the poll WELLINGTON .MAYORALTY. WELLINGTON. April 29. The elec lion for the Mayoralty ot Wellington resulted as follows:C. Norwood (Citizens’) 13,101 ('. Chapman < Labour) 11 . i i)i AUCKLAND AfAA'ORALTA'. AUCKLAND. April 29. The Mayoral election resulted:— George Harden) 8988 Harold Schmidt Two returns are to come. AUCKLAND LOAN POLLS. AUCKLAND, April 29. The proposal to borrow £340,(X10 for a civic septa re scheme was to-day defeated. the voting being:—hor, 41c2; gainst 1913. Three returns are yet to

A I oil 11 of £12,000 for a now library at Remuera was carried, the voting ljoinj?: For, 4038; Against 402 !.

CIVIC ELECTIONS. INVERCARGILL. INA’ER CARGILL, April 20. \V. MiClicsney 596 C. H. Poole 7, 51 Wednesday half holiday was retained in Invercargill hv 487. A gas loan of £15,500 was carried by 420. ’ MAT AURA MAYORALTY. MAT AURA, April 29. O. I). McConnell 320 T. S Quilter 221 OAA I Alt II RESULTS. OAMARU, April 29. The Oamaru Mayoral election resulted : AlcDianukl (retiring Alayor) ... 1232 AY. H. Frith 1162 Saturday was retained as the half holiday. AY A NO AXUI MAYORALTY. WANGANUI, April 29. Hope Gibbons (sit. Mayor) ... 4062 James Siddells •••• 20G0 A proposal to rate on unimproved values was carried by 2241 to 1707 votes. PALMERSTON NORTH. PALMERSTON X., April 29. E. J. Nathan was elected unopposed lor his second term to the Mayoralty. Eight sitting councillors were re-elec-ted. with the addition of Air AY. Low 7. NAPIER POLLING. NAPIER, April 29. Eor Napier Alayoralty Air J. B. Andrew (sitting) polled 1769; to Air J. AlcCrath 1122; and J. Vigor Brown 788. HASTINGS AIAYORALTY. HASTINGS. April 29. G H AUuldison (sitting) ... 1983 A. W'ade ; ••• «« The breakwater and inner harhoui controversy resulted in much interest in the election of three members of the Board from Napier, one from Hastings, and one from AYaipukurau. Napier re-

turned the breakwater ticket with a good majority, and the other two seats were won by the inner harbour party. B LENHEIM BOLLIX G . BLENHEIM, April 29. Heavy polling characterised the Municipal Elections to-day. Air Malcolm McKenzie (Deputy-Mayor) was elected Mayor unopposed. There were fifteen candidates for nine seats on the Council, but at a late hour tho votes were uncounted. In addition to the polls for borough representatives cm the Hospital Board and Power Board, four loan proposals were .submitted, viz: piping and filling in ditches; (2) £IO.OOO for purchase of road machinery. construction of footpaths, and reforming roads; (3) £2,300 for the erection of a traffic bridge over Taylor River (borough’s share) ; (4) £IOOO for a Best Boom for AVomen. Of these proposals, the £IO,OOO loan was e.urictl, the others l>eiiig thrown out. There was a great flight on the halfholiday question, the supporters of AYedncsday and Saturday being very energetic. Saturday was earned by a substantial majority. FICTOX POLLS. PICTON, April 29. Air Jones was elected Alayor. Saturday halt' holiday was carried at Fictou. GISBORNE MAYORALTY. GISBORNE, April 29. The Mayoral election resulted: G. Wildish (sitting Alayor) ... 2860 Fred Ball 1828 AIASTERTON rolls. AUSTKItTON, April 29. The Alayoral election resulted: * — T. Jordan (sitting Or.) 1471 A. Rippon 11^2 HOLIDAY POLL. Saturday 1521 Thursday 985 A water loan of £12,000 and a gas loan of £6OOO were both carried hv 300 majority. D ARC AVI LLE MAYORALTY. DARG.VYILLE, April 29. Tito Alayoral election resulted: .Tones 4(15 Jiornhlow (sitting Alayor) 332 LEVIN MAYORALTY. LEVIN. April 29. The Ataym'al election results for Levin arc: Hobson (sitting Alayor) 4c L Goldsmith 282 SHANNON MAYORALTY. Murdock (Sitting Alayor) 319 Hyde 1(515 AVESTPORT HOSPITAL BOARD. WESTPORT, April 29. The only elections held here to-day wore for the Hospital Board, there being five candidates for three seats. The voting was: C. N. Greenland 507 AY. Caldwell 485 E. It. Fox 423 Mrs Patterson 389 Rev. A. Miller 238

AN UNUSUAL FEATURE. OTA TCI, April 30. An tin usual feature of the Borough Council election was that only one of t,!io previous councillors (Air O’Rourke) was relented. GORE MAYORALITY. GORE, April 30. Tin- mayurality resulted in: I). L. I’oppclwell (re-elected) ... <!)1 |). AL Thomson 482 WEL LIN G I TO NCI>U NCI T,. AY ELLINGTON. April 30. There were thirty-six candidates hr 13 seats on the City Council. The following were elected: W 1! Bennett 12,001 lo’a. WriKl.t ™ 11. D. Bennett M. E. Luckio 11810 G. A. ’Troup H’ 9 ” 4 E. AY. Meadowc-roft Uo4G A Tv AlonteiLh 112 z. j.' Aston 412 1 8 B G TT. Burn 11168 J . Burns 1 5 - 00 ! F. AY. Afanton 1102, 11, A. Higgins 5(5442 R. AfcKeon 9, oil W J. Thompson 9.70-1 T. Forsyth ■•■•••••; 9007 AI ess is Troup. Alanton. Higgins and Ale-Keen are the new members. Messrs Alonteit.il and AfcKeon are the Labour meiiihe rs.

ASHBURTON, April 30. The fact tliat the Mayoralty was eontested for the first time in ten years resulted in a record poll. Mr It. Galbraith. the sitting Afayor polled 1059, and Mr H. It. 0. Ali-Elrca, a memlici of the late Council 590. The Hospital Board election was very close, Mr F. W. Wall, the sitting member, defeating T)r AVclls, former medical Superintendent by twelve. The half holiday poll resulted: .Saturday 1172, Thursday C 75. NEW FT TIE DISTRICT. WAIftOA. April 30. The proposal to form a fire district was carried by 375 voters to 20 at yesterday’s poll. PAVEMENT LOAN C A It DIED. AVKEIJNGTON, April 30. The poll for a loan of .£200,000 for the extension of the permanent paving of the city streets was carried by 9-105 to 3467. AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, April 30. The new Council elected is : —Bloodworth (L.) 8794. Court 7903, AVarnock 774, Allum 7513. Aliss Afelville 7446. Dempsey 7389. Knight 7346, Hardlev 7235, Entrican 7011. Af. J. Bennett 6830. C. F. Bennett 6703, C'oyle 6554, Eady 6463, Donald 6259, Robertson 6124, Paterson 6114, Crookes 5923, Brinsden 5686, Brownlee 5537, Thompson 5326. Phelan (TO 4706.

AT NET-SON. NTJLSON. April 30. The Nelson Alayoralty resulted; Lock (sitting) 1499, H. Coltman 987. T. AY. Fore ter 72. AT AYTLAN GAR El. AYHANGAREI. April 30. For the Alayoralty, J. E. Holmes defeated L. J. Brake by fifty votes in a poll of two thousand. ELECTORAL blunder, BALLOT PAPERS DEFECTIVE. AUCKLAND, April 29. Some time after the opening of the poll this morning, consternation was caused among the officials at the main Polling Booth at the Town Hall by the discovery that the ballot papers for the election of the City members of the Harbour Board contained a wrong direction- These ballot papers were headed; “City of Auckland—Election of three members of the Auckland Harbour Board."’

Then followed the names of nine candidates, tlio voter being directed to place a cross against the names of the candidates lor whom he desired to vote.

The number of members to ho returned for the city is four, and not three. The mistake was not discovered till an elector drew attention to it at about 9.30, or half an hour after the poll opened. By that time, t"0 or three hundred electors had recorded their votes. After the discovery was made, the polling clerks were set to work marking out the word ‘-three” and substituting “four” in pencil. Bv that time, however, it seemed probable that many of the electors’ had olieyed the erroneous instruction on their papers, and had voted for three candidatees. How many did so vote, will be discovered after the papers are scrutinised to-night.

It is considered inevitable that 1 result of this mistake will bo a costlyone, necessitating another election. The statement is made that it is certain that one of the defeated candidates will have the election upset.