ELECTIONS FOR MEAT PRODUCERS’ BOARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 97, 15 July 1927, Page 16

ELECTIONS FOR MEAT PRODUCERS’ BOARD

DELEGATES’ NOMINATIONS (Special to THE SUN.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. The following nominations for delegates to represent the various districts on the Electoral Committee have been received by the returning officer for the Meat Producers’ Board election: Auckland. —C. C. Munro, Clevedon; J. Peat, Kauri; W. Seavill, Ngaruawahia; C. K. Wilson, Piopio; H. W. Wilson, Huntly; H. E. Worsp, Whangarei. Two required. Gisborne.—J. R. Roberts, Gisborne; W. G. Sherratt, Gisborne. Two required. Messrs. Roberts and Sherratt declared ejected. Hawke’s Bay.—E. Averill, Hastings; R. S. Chadwick, Dannevirke; J. H. Jull, Havelock North; A. V. S. Reed, Napier; G. D. Tod, Nuhaka. Four required. West Coast.—F. W. Arbon, Ashhurst; A. S. Coleman, Marton; K. A. Dairymple, Bulls; W. Morlrson, Maxwelltown; A. Stuart, Mai ton; H. T. Whale, Marton. Three lequired. Wairarapa.—A. Clark, Featherston; W. F. McLaren, Masterton; M. McLeod, Martinborough; A. Ross, Masterton. Two required. Marlborough-Nelson-Westland.—A. Latter, Blenheim; A. Thomson, Ward. Two required. Messrs. Latter and Thomson declared elected. North and Mid-Canterbury.—J. Carr, Methven; J. O. Coop, Little River; E. Hay, Pigeon Bay; R. T. McMillan, Irwell; R. M. Morten, Taitapu W. F. Parkinson. Ataahua. Three required. South Canterbury.—G. A. M. Macdonald, Orari; J. Trotter, Fairlie. Two required. Messrs. Macdonald and Trotter declared elected. Otago.—J. Begg, Dunedin; J. D. Revie, Crookston; D. J. Ross, Hiligrove; D. Williams, Oamaru. Three required. Southland. —H. F. Blatch, Lumsden; A. S. Holmes, Waimahaka; H. Mclntyre, Pukerau; H. Smith. Waihaka Valley. Two required.

With the exception of Gisborne, Marlborough and South Canterbury districts, the number of nominations exceeds fehe number of delegates required. A postal ballot is therefore being conducted, the necessary ballot papers being dispatched to each sheep farmer owning not less than 100 sheep in the districts concerned. The Electoral Committee when elected will meet in Wellington on August 25, to consider the fifth annual report and statement of accounts of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, and to elect three producers’ representatives on the board, for which the following have been nominated: H. D. Acland, Christchurch (sitting member); James Carr, Methven: J. O. Coop. Little River; J. S. Jessep, Wairoa (sitting member): Robert Latter, New Brighton, Christchurch ; William Perry, Masterton (sitting member).