ELECTION DAY AT THE RINK.

Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 1170, 9 December 1896, Page 2

ELECTION DAY AT THE RINK.

TO THE EDITOB. Sib— Ton have not in your article on the women's vote sufficiently described what took place at the Skating Rink. There were several women who because of the rowdyism were afraid to vote! Two Salvation Army officers, to my knowledge, complained to one of the candidates that many women were afraid to vote at the Rink. The behaviour of a publican at this booth was particularly objectionable, and I know for a fact that he jostled some ladies with Opposition tickets off the step? at the Rink. I also know his conduct disgusted many of the self-respecting members of the trade. In the New Zealand Times of Saturday, 6th December, that paper saya: — "A lady advocate of hotelclosing took up a stand in another building with a consignment of top-line tickets, but other ladies of the opposing faction made things so uncomfortable for her that she was glad to leave." Another ladj, not satisfied with handing her own tickets to electors, snatched out of their hands the opposition tickets previously handed to them, thus showing that "rudeness "was noljconfined to the " Liberal " men only. I am, &c, Electob.