IN OTHER CENTRES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26624, 21 November 1947, Page 6

IN OTHER CENTRES

CITIZENS’ CANDIDATES SCORE HEAVILY Auckland All Citizens’ Association candidates were elected to the Auckland City Council. Citizens’ representatives thus retained the 21 seats, maintaining the same position as at the last election. All the Citizens’ candidates were returned, for the Harbour Board and the Hospital Board, the position in these also remaining unchanged'. Wellington ' . . Citizens > won all the seats on the' Wellington City Council, the leading Citizens’ candidate, Mrs E. M. Gilmre, polling 29,979 votes, against the leading Labour candidate, E. Casey’s, 20,160. The lowest Citizens’ candidate polled 22,910. The highest Communist vote was 6618, compared with 9763 at the last election. Citizens retained all seats on the Hospital Board and the Harbour Board. Christchurch

. Labour yesterday ' won five seats on the Christchurch City Council. Since 1944 its representation has been cine. Citizens won 14 seats. The Citizens’ Association retained three seats on the Lyttelton Harbour Board. A decisive victory in the North Canterbury Catchment Board election was scored by the four Citizens’ nominees. Citizens Won' nine, of the ten city seats on the North Canterbury Hospital Board. Gisborne

Five Citizens’, three Labour and one Independent candidate were elected to .the Gisborne Borough Council out of a field of 28 candidates. Two new members were elected, one Citizens’ and one Labour. On the Power Board and the Harbour Board Citizens’ candidates swept the poll and on the Hospital Board Citizens’ gained a Labour seat.

New Plymouth The strange situation of a defeated candidate retaining his seat on the Harbour Board was an unusual twist in the, local body election at New Plymouth. Mr J. S Harris, who has been a member of the board as Government nominee, contested the election and was defeated, but has been reappointed by the board. Mr Harris, who is secretary of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union, was a Labour Party candidate. Mr Harris’s reappointment was advised by telegram yesterday, so 'that whichever way the election went he was sure of a seat. Had he displaced one of the two sitting members he would presumably have resigned his Government appointment, leaving the seat vaqant for another Governmentselected man. Labour Party candidates were not successful in the New Plymouth Borough Council. Harbour Board and' Taranaki Hospital Board elections.

Greymouth A feature of the local body elections in Greymouth was the success of the Citizens’’ candidates. Fifteen were nominated for 18 seats, and 14 were elected. Labour has only two seats of nine on the Borough Council. Westport’’

In th,e Buffer local body elections the first Electric Power Board was appointed with the return of Mr J Kilkenny and Mr J. D. McDonald (borough representatives), Mr W. H. Mclntyre, M.L.C., Mr F. Connew, and Mr E. C. Austin (county). The chairman of the County Council for the last term, Mr Connew, was defeated in the Millerton Riding by Mr Mclntyre, a former member of the council, and the former chairman, Mr J. Ward, also lost his seat to Mr M. Clarke in the contest for the Waimangaroa Riding. Of nine members of the Buller Hospital Board, five are women—three from the borough and two from the county—but the nosition of one is uncertain. Mr Mclntyre was elected 1o three local bodies—the Power and Hospital "Boards and the County Council. Comparatively little interest was taken in the election, nearly half the electors abstaining.