Talk:Christchurch City Council/Workpage

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--510municipal+election+christchurch-all
 * 29 April 1903
 * 26 April 1905
 * 24 April 1907
 * 28 April 1909
 * 26 April 1911
 * 30 April 1913

1907
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=TS19070425.2.4&e=---10--10-all

No word of a mayoral election (Payling), though.

Other things
1910 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--610municipal+election+christchurch-all