AUCKLAND MAYORALTY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 524, 29 November 1928, Page 1

AUCKLAND MAYORALTY

MR. H. E. VAILE MAY BE A CANDIDATE favourable reply received A number of city business men are at present banding together with the object of approaching Mr. H. E. Vaile, of Samuel Vaile and Sons, Ltd., and requesting him to be a candidate next year for the meyoral honours of the City of Auckland. Mr. Vaile has already been upbroached informally but has not given u definite reply. R is understood that, if his consent is given, a strong committee will be forthcoming to further his interests. it will include many well-known city business men. *‘l would not be unwilling to stand for the office of Mayor,” Mr. Vaile told THE SUN this morn%'ng. “|f ;t i s made clear that I a m wanted and I am sure on that Point, I win consent. I am an Aucklander by birth, and * feel that it would be my duty to sivs my services if they are required.” , Mr. Vaile is president of the Auck“•nd Institute and Museum Council. , or four years he was chairman of ~ 6 trustees of the Jubilee Institute °r the Blind, and for a similar period ‘ a was president of the Society of "-Rs- His association with the public Ifairs of Auckland iias been an inti - “jdte one and has extended over the hunt 2o years, and he is widely known * c *ty business circles.