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Collection of material for a history section
Municipal Corporations Act, 1900 sets out that elections are to be biennial, with the first one in 1901. Elections to be on the last Wednesday in April: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TS19030326.2.6&srpos=60&e=-------10--51----0municipal+election+christchurch-all
- 29 April 1903
- 26 April 1905
- 24 April 1907
- 28 April 1909
- 26 April 1911
- 30 April 1913
Results
edit1907
edithttp://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=TS19070425.2.4&e=-------10--1----0-all
No word of a mayoral election (Payling), though.
Other things
edit1910 discussion on mayoral election reform: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19100704.2.44&srpos=70&e=-------10--61----0municipal+election+christchurch-all