ELECTION RESULTS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19463, 9 November 1928, Page 18

ELECTION RESULTS.

NO TELEPHONE REPORTS IN CITIES. No election results "vrill be given to telephone subscribers in the four main centres by the Information Department on election day. This decision lias been made by the Post and Telegraph Department because it is feared that the special service required for this purpose would so overload the staff that subscribers would be unable to obtain the usual rapid communication with parts of the system in case of fire, sickness, or urgent business. However, the results will be available to country subscribers in the old manner.

PROPOSED SHIPPING SUBSIDY. CANDIDATES FAVOUR SCHEME. (FAESB ASSOCIATION TELEGEAif.) DUNEDIN, November 8. In its efforts to secure a more regular and frequent steamer service between Melbourne, Hobart, and the southern ports of New Zealand, the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce has communicated with all the Parliamentary candidates in Canterbury, Otago, and Southland, asking whether they will support the. following proposals:— (1) That the Government be asked to approach the U.S.S. Company or some other company to establish a regular and moro frequent service between Melbourne, Hobart, Bluff; Dunedin, Lyttelton, and Wellington and return; (2) that the Government be urged to grant such subsidy as may be necessary for tho establishment of that service (the subsidy to be shared by the Victorian and Tasmanian Governments.) Tho following candidates have replied, stating that they are in accord with the proposals, and if elected will give them their support:—Messrs C. S. McCiilly, G. H. Thompson, E. J. Howard. E. H. Andrews,- R. W. Hawke, Clyde Carr. (Canterbury); O. It. Smith, J. W. Munro, J. Robinson, J. A. Macpherson, W. A. McLachlan, R. Harrison, It. W. Hall. G. S. Thomson, H. L. Tapley. C. Todd (Otago): S. M. Macalister, W. C. Dtenham, (Southland). Favourable replies are also expected from other candidates.

ABSENTEE VOTES. INSTRUCTIONS FOR ELECTORS. (press association TELEGEAM.) WELLINGTON, November 8. Although the provisions governing absentee voting at the General Elections are of the simplest, numerous enquiries are being made as to what the procedure is. The position is that registered electors . who will be absent from their districts on Wednesday next are not required to be in possession of an absent voter's permit in order to exercise their vote. The permit system was 1 abolished for the 1925 General Election, and in its place was introduced a much simpler method. All a registered elector who is out of his own district is required, to do under the new system is to apply at any polling place and ask for voting papers for trie district in which-he is registered.' It will be necessary for such an - applicant to satisfy the Deputy Returning Officer as to his qualifications as an elector, and. that it- will not be possible for him to return to his electoral district before the poll closes. . ■ , . , For instance, in ..the case or electors of Hutt who reside in Eastbourne, Petone, and the Hutt Valley, who will be in Wellington on Wednesday, and will not be returning to the electorate before polling terminates, they will be able to exercise their votes as absentee voters. The same advantage can be availed of in Christchurch by the electors of Lyttelton, Kaiapoi, and Riccarton; in Auckland by the electors or suburbs, Waitemata, Manukau, and the outlying parts of Reskill; m Dunedin by the electors of Chalmers and part of Dunedin Central. Electors who have been permanently away from their districts for more than three months and have taken up permanent residenoe in other districts lose their qualification to vote as absentee voters. ' , Those entitled to vote under the postal voting system have now only a short time in which to for the postal vote certificates. Electors afKed by- postal voting .provisions should attend to the matter immediatNeither the absentee voting nor postal voting systems apply to the Maori elections. '

THAT QUESTIONNAIRE. N.Z. ALLIANCE AND ME ANDREWS. Mr E. H. Andrews has written ; to The PbeS3 with regard to the advertisement . inserted yesterday by the New Zealand Alliance setting out the replies to its recent questionnaire. In the advertisement Mr Andrews is included among those candidates who declined to answer the questions asked bv the Alliance. Mr Andrews says that he did not decline to answer but sent the Alliance the following letter. "In answer to your letter J k ave , to say that I am contesting ._tbis_ election as a member of the United Party. I am supporting that, Party consider that it will best give effect to the needs of the Dominion in dealing with the large, political issues. It would be compromising my nUegiance to give pledges to any organisation whose policy, is. not incorporated in that of mv- Party. It is true, as you say, that 'many questions of far-reach-ing importance demand the attention of electors in making choice of h»preventatives in Parliament, bufcldo not agree that the licensuig question must be allowed that pre-eminence which y6u demand for it. The best method of handling.this ; question is not et discovered, and public country fixed concerning it. Therefore, I should be depriving myself of freedom of action in accordance _ with circumstances if I were to go to Parliament bound to a particular course on details of as yet umntroduced legislative proposals. As, an example or the unwisdom of such pledging, may I mention the three-issue ballot paper r The principal argument used against the tnird issue has been that a minority only support it. But the vote for State Control increased very largely. If it again increases largely, a candidate who declared against the three-issue paper would be pledging himself to a course of action which the I Alliance would, I am sure, no longer think defensible. If the election were being fought upon the licensing question only, every candidate would naturally regard the questions you ask, and others you might also ask, as of paramount importance. The licensing question is, however, in the hands of the people, and the election is being fought on other issues, -whichno subsidiary ?uestion ought to be allowed- to conuse. t I prefer to give no pledges, trusting to be judged now by my record, and subsequently (if I am elected) I by my actions when dealing with actual legislation .tg tuo -Houae."