ELECTION DAY IN LONDON

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29384, 10 December 1960, Page 17

ELECTION DAY IN LONDON

News Service At N.Z. House [From the Lbndon Correspondent of "The Press”] Once again the General Election day occasion arranged in London by New Zealand House for New Zealanders eager to ge.t the earliest results was a popular success. The assembly hall of the Royal Commonwealth Society was filled for about three hours on the Saturday morning while news of the vote-counting reached London by Reuter’s teleprinter service to New Zealand House and was relayed to the hall. A cross-section of New Zealand residents and visitors was there and the service forestalled some of the flood of telephone inquiries about the result. The acting High Commissioner, Mr Laking, and Mrs Laking were there; a strong contingent from the house staff, business representatives, bank managers, tourists, typists, teachers—a whole range of New Zealanders abroad busily followed the incoming reports with the result forms provided. Television and newsreel cameramen were on hand to record the occasion and collect opinions on the result. The concession by Mr Nash, announced at 11.15 a.m. was accepted with a polite, far from universal cheer. Since the result was forecast much earlier, the several hundred visitors had repaired either to the bar or to the business of noting local results.