MAKARA COUNTY
EXTRAORDINARY ELECTION. The nomination of candidates for tho extraordinary election to fill the vacancy in the Makara County Council caused by the resignation of Mr Stephen Bryant (chairman) closed at noon yesterday.' There aro two candidates for the seat—Frederick Henry Futter, nominated by William Brown and Thomas Hayes, and Thomas Shallcrass Jackson, nominated by Arthur Edward Woolston and Helma Gertrude George—and tho election is .to take place on Juno 10th. Mr Jackson is the nominee of the Ncwlands Ratepayers’ and Progress League. Mr Bryant stated to a “Times” representative that ho resigned because on each occasion he called for a division on administrative policy he was defeated. Ono occasion was tho voting down of his proposal that the county should be divided into four ridings, according to population and capital value, so that, each riding should have separate representation, instead of all the representation going, as at .present, to Johnsonville.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10607, 4 June 1920, Page 5
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152MAKARA COUNTY New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10607, 4 June 1920, Page 5
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