WINNERS AND LOSERS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 110, 5 November 1925, Page 14

WINNERS AND LOSERS

APPfrOPrrrATE SPEECHES

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Spen after the close of the poll, pegpie' began "to'-oweroble at the result; display .boards in Lambton quay,' Willis

street, and Courtenay place, and by 8 o'c.l.ock" dense-' crowds had assembled to Watoh the progress figures aa they were shown. When the final numbers were announced the winning and the defeated candidates -returned thanks from the" balconies" of. the news-; paper offjees.; Although, post o.i the speakers had mixed receptions, there ; being many interjections, and some booing, evidently, from supporters of political opponents, the general behaviour of .the crowd was admirable, and there was no disorder of any kind. The amplifiers used at "The | Post" in announcing': the progress and final numbers enabled those members of the vast throng iri Willis street and Mercer street who, owing to their distance from the board, were unable to see-the figures clearly, ,t0 "hear," the All tha» candi-, datesYapokJ'4ronr "The Post" ;balcw»y-t. as, dicf the Prime Minister shortly after li of clock, when the general results throughout tha Dominion, assuring ai groat victory for the Reform Tarty, were known. .. The ' message given by Mr. Coates appears under; another- heading. The-remarks ofthaxandidates are given idSw;;i^;^ic.*;":;;;y'.'^^SwS~S;-; I