TROUBLE AT STOKES VALLEY.
$ MEETING ENDS IN A MELEE. Speaking metaphorically, there were "razors flying through tho air" at tho termination of the householders' meeting for the election of the committee of tho Stokes Valley (Hutt) School. Tho meeting was interlarded with lively argument right through, but serious trouble was averted until the result of the election of the committee was made known. It was announced that Messrs. E. Salisbury, (chairman), I. Jenner (secretary), P. Williamson, and W. Mawson were returned, but for tho fifth place there was a tie between Mr. A. Smith, an old committeeman, and Mr. T. Delaney, representing new blood. It was decided to take another poll of the meeting to decide ,the matter, and the result of this was that Mr. Delaney was returned by a majority of two votes.' The announcement of the result is stated to have been followed by a lively scene. Sides were promiscuously taken, the kerosene lamps were overturned, and in the dim half-light there was a merry melee from which few escaped without some reminder of a more or less, painful character.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1111, 26 April 1911, Page 7
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183TROUBLE AT STOKES VALLEY. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1111, 26 April 1911, Page 7
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