Hastings mayor and recently selected Tukituki electorate candidate for the National Party Lawrence Yule says he is being very careful to "manage" any conflict between the two roles.
Still not committing to when he will resign as mayor, Mr Yule said he was just about to sign up to a lease on a Havelock North office, and had set up a personal phone and iPad, from which to conduct his campaigning.
"I am trying to eliminate any use of council resources," he said, despite a video interview with a media outlet that emerged over the weekend that was conducted in the mayoral office at the Hastings District Council.
He explained that he arranged to hold that interview the day after he had been selected to represent the Tukituki electorate, a time was made and there was nowhere else to do it in the timeframe provided.
"I will not be doing anything more like this from my office."