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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 757, 16 July 1853, Page 2 (Supplement)

TO MR. JOHN WILLIAMSON. QIR,r-We, the Undersigned Electors of the Pensioners Settlements, being convinced of the deep importance to ourselves, and, indeed, the whole community, that we should be represented in the "Provincial Council by men having, besides a practical knowledge of the wants of the Colony generally, a thorough acquaintance with our own position and requirements, and believing that you possess these requisites in addition to the necessary intelligence and independence to qualify you for the post, request that you will allow yourself to be put in nomination as one of the candidates for the Pensioner Settlements, in which case we tender you all the support in our power.—We are, Sir etc., . H. W. Mahon, M.D. John Murdoch James Ninnis Edward Stalldad Phillip Owens John McGhee John Arnold Wm. Turner John Butler John Fallon Henry Brierly July 11, 1853. John Douglas M. Keiley John Bales John Berwick Geo. Banlett P. J. Hogan M. Madigan Wm. Buiten J. Murphy Patrick King Robert Turner. Fellow Colomsts,—l thank you for the terms in which you have been pleased to convey your request to me to allow myself to be piit in nomination as a Candidate for one of the four seals to which the representatives of your settlements will be entitled in the first Council of the Province of Auckland. I am fully alive to the onerous nature of the duties attaching to a seat in that Council, if faithfully discharged, and in responding to your wishes to become a candidate I feel that; should I be elected, how-o-vcr inefficiently" to your satisfaction or mv