WELLINGTON SUBURBS

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 146, 18 December 1919, Page 9

WELLINGTON SUBURBS

MR. WRIGHT AGAIN RETURNED. R. A. Wright (R.) ... 4280 A. W. Cruskery (Lab.) 3033 D. Sloane (L.) 2148 Majority for Wright... 1247 The electors of Wellington Suburbs camiot be said to have lacked interest in the election, for they rolled up in force at every polling place throughout the electorate, and at several of„ the booths, notably at Maranui, the polling 80 far exceeded expectations that the stock of voting papers ran dangerously low, and additional papers had to be secured, though no booth was at any time actually without voting papers. ■ A glance at the figures below will show that Berhampore, Brooklyn, and Ngahauranga polled heavily for the Labour candidate, Mr. A. W. Croskery, and Johnsonville for ,the Liberal candidate, Mr. Dunbar Sloane, but even early in the evening, when the first batches of results came through, there was little doubt as to the result of the contest, for Mr. R. A. Wright (Reform) had gained a great advantage, which was increased by leaps and bounds'until the final results were 'phoned to the central booth at the Masonic Hall, Berhampore, at 9.45 p.m., when his lea-d from Mr. Croskery was 1247 votes, and from the Liberal candidate 2134 votes. V 111 Berhampore 505 206 401 Brooklyn 15 21 20 Island Bay School 171 87 261 St. Hilda's Hall 246 111 574 Johnsonville '152 187 91 Kaiwarra i 118 88 82 Karori Council 112 137 284 Russell's Rooms 66 121 255 Khandallah. 73 103 242 Makara. — 8 13 43 Maranui 379 217 456 Melrose 59 27 65 Miramar., 190 72 138 Ngahauranga .... 85 29 23 Ngaio 175 80 " 297 Newlands 37 15 5 Seatoun 95 108 275 Te Kohanga 16 9 13 Wadestown 151 128 249 Kelburn 108 149 408 Worser Bay 32 25 76 Northland ..;. 171 163 214 Goldie's Brae 34 50 108 Informal, 96. ■ 1914— R. A. Wright (R.). 3258; F. T. Moore (Lab.), 2256; J. E. Fitzgerald (L.), 922. Reform majority, 1002.