Municipality of Ryde: election, 1941

Election date: 6 December 1941 (1)

Aldermen elected at triennial election: (2) 

Clive Dare BONDFIELD; William CLAYTON; Allan Ernest CUPIT; Percy Isaac FISHER; William HARRISON; William John IRVINE; Michael Charles Ivan LEVY; Gibson James MacMILLAN; William Herbert MAHON; John MILLER; Herbert Jesse MITCHELL; Leonard Allan SMITH

Aldermen who served during 1942-1944: (3)

Clive Dare BONDFIELD; William CLAYTON; Allan Ernest CUPIT; Percy Isaac FISHER (4); William HARRISON; William John IRVINE; Michael Charles Ivan LEVY; Gibson James MacMILLAN; William Herbert MAHON; John MILLER; Herbert Jesse MITCHELL; Robert George RATCLIFFE (5); Leonard Allan SMITH

Mayor: 

William HARRISON 1942 (until June) (6)

Gibson James MacMILLAN (from June 1942-1943) (7)

Clive Dare BONDFIELD 1944 (8)

Deputy Mayor:

------------------------- 1942 (9)

------------------------- 1943 (10)

------------------------- 1944 (11)

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References:

(1)   Sydney Morning Herald 8 December 1941 p6

(2)   Confirmed Ordinary meeting of 7 January 1942; Sydney Morning Herald 8 December 1941 p6 

(3)   Council minutes

(4)   Resigned. Minuted at Special meeting of 16 December 1942. Replaced by Robert Ratcliffe

(5)   At Ordinary meeting of 6 January 1943 Robert George Ratcliffe welcomed, having been successful at election of 2 January 1943

(6)   Ald. Harrison was elected Mayor at a Special meeting on 10 December 1941. He resigned as Mayor in June 1942 because he had enlisted, recorded in Ordinary minutes 24 June 1942. He was granted Leave of Absence from Council 

(7)   Ald. MacMillan was elected Mayor for the balance of the Mayoral term at a Special meeting on 30 June 1942 to replace Ald. Harrison who had enlisted 

Ald. MacMillan was elected Mayor for 1943 at a Special meeting on 2 December 1942

(8)   Ald. Bondfield was elected Mayor at a Special meeting on 1 December 1943 

(9)   There was no mention of the election of a Deputy Mayor at the Special meeting of 10 December 1941 or at the Ordinary meeting of 17 December 1941 

(10) At Special meeting on 2 December 1942 ‘Ald. Mitchell asked for permission to move for the appointment of a Deputy Mayor … Ald. Mitchell [informed] that it would be necessary for him to give notice of his intention to move for the appointment of a Deputy Mayor’. At Ordinary meeting of 9 December 1942, notice of motion re electing a Deputy Mayor was withdrawn

(11)   No discussion of election of Deputy Mayor at Special meeting on 1 December 1943

Compiled by Local Studies and Family History Librarian, City of Ryde Libraries, 2019