NEW COUNTY CHAIRMAN.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 337, 11 December 1917, Page 2

NEW COUNTY CHAIRMAN.

Mr William Claud Motion, who has been again elected Chairman of the Franklin County Council, was appointed to the same position on the inauguration of the Council in July, 1912, and he held the office until November, 1914, when he was succeeded by Mr J. Flanagan. The new Chairman, who resides at Otaua, represents the Waipipi Riding on the Council and at the first election June, 1912, he secured a majority of 97 over Mr A. M. Barriball and in 1914 he had a majority of 123 ovet Mr W. L. West At the recent election he was returned unopposed. He was born in 1873 in Auckland. His father, the late Mr Wm Motion, was one of the earliest settlers of the northern district as he arrived in the Bay of Islands in 1838 and went to Auckland in 1840, where he became the owner of the Western Springs, on which he erected a flourmill, subsequently selling the property to the Auckland City Council for a

The sittings of the Pukekohe Magistrate's Court will be resumed on Thursday next, when Mr Wyvern Wilson, S.M, will preside. At the recent Auckland Kennel Club's show Capt. C. Elford (Pukekohe) won a second and two third prizes with his bulldog bitch.

Notice is given in our advertising columns of the taking by the Public Works Department of certain lands situated in Karaka parish, block XI, Drury Survey District, for the purposes of a road. A special screening of pictures organised by the PuKekohe branch of the Women's Patriotic League, is to be given in the Premier Hall next Monday evening in aid of the Soldiers' Trench Comforts Fund. The League is indebted to Mr J. J. Coady, the proprietor of the hall, for supplying the pictures. Mr Wyvern WilsoD, S.M, has fixed Wednesday of next week at 10.30 a m in the Pukekohe Courthouse for the magisterial enquiry into the petition presented by Mr J Henry and others againsc the election of Mr J. S Montgomerie as the representative of the Mauku Riding on the Franklin County Council. Official notice appears in our advertising columns relative to the enAles D. Bell, wbo has been appoints! to succeed Mr fl. R. Mackenzie as Chairman of the Manukau County Council, was born at Clevedon where he still resides, and was educated at the Clevedon Public School under Mr H. N. Le Gallais. He his always taken an interest in public affairs and has been a member of the Wairoa Road Board for the past nine years, having been Chairman of that body for seven years. He has represented the Wairoa Riding for the past five years since the Counties Act came into force in Manukau county. Mr Bell has also been a member of the Clevedon School Committee for some years and ha? takpn an active part in Farmers Union affairs, being on the Auckland Provincial Farmers' Union Executive for several years and a Director of the Farmers' Union Trading Comoaoy since its inception He has further identified himself wi'h A and P. Association work, having been President of theCleve don A. and P. Society for two years and beitg still a member of the Executive Committee, .tie is also on the General Committeo of the Auckland ar,d Franklin A. and P. Societies. Mr Bell has always exhibited keerj thoroughness in anything be fngages upon and his occupancy of the Manukau County chair will afford him scope for displaying the abilities of organisation which are ch iractetistic of him.

source of the city's water 'supply Mr W. C. Motion took up residence at Otaua in 1894. In 1897 he married jMiss Maud Sellers, daughter of the late Mr H. J. B. Sellers, of Auckland. He is a farmer by occupation. Prior to the Waipipi Road Board merging some five year* ago he waa, a member of that body and he has been Chairman of the Otaua School Committee for 12 or 13 years. He is a Director of the New Zealand Dairy Association, a member of the Franklin Licensing Committee, and a Justice of die Peace. Racing is his favourite kind ofeport and he has in training a very promising four-year-old mare, named Bellacity, by Achilles-Bweet Angelas.' Mr Motion is everywhere) exceedingly popular and being a good business man his occupancy for a second time of the post of County Chairman will meet with the general approval of the ratepayers.