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Municipality of Ryde: election, 1893
Election date: 11 February 1893. No poll required for East and West Ward as number of nominations equalled the number of positions. Only Central Ward contested (1)
Aldermen elected: (2)
Central Ward: Samuel JORDAN
East Ward: Edward Marsden BETTS (elected unopposed – ordinary vacancy)
East Ward: Thomas Smedley PIDDING (elected unopposed – Extraordinary vacancy)
West Ward: Walter HIBBLE (elected unopposed)
Aldermen who served during 1893-1894: (3)
Edward Marsden BETTS; John FORSYTH; Walter HIBBLE; Samuel JORDAN; Charles KRUST; John George NORTH; Thomas Smedley PIDDING; Thomas POTTS; Edward WORTHINGTON
Mayor: (4)
Thomas POTTS
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References:
(1) Council minutes ‘Nomination Day 7 February 1893
(2) Council minutes ‘Nomination Day 7 February 1893’; Sydney Morning Herald 13 February 1893 p7 and Council minutes report of election of 11 February 1893, declaration 13 February 1893. There were two men elected for East Ward. Betts was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the usual ‘retirement by rotation’ by one alderman from each ward. There was also an Extraordinary vacancy caused by the retirement of Ald. Face. Thomas Smedley Pidding was elected to fill that vacancy
(3) Council minutes
(4) Ald. Potts was elected Mayor at a Special meeting on 16 February 1893
Compiled by Local Studies and Family History Librarian, City of Ryde Libraries, 2019
The Municipality of Ryde and the Municipality of Eastwood amalgamated on 1 January 1949.
Aldermen were elected for three years but in the first few years of the Council one alderman from each ward was obliged to resign, determined by who had received the least votes at the first election. Thereafter, as their three year term expired, the aldermen would retire but could seek re-election.