IN THE STREETS
;A QUIET NIGHT.
- There was no mafficking, in the streets last night. Huge crowds congregated before tho results boards and from timo to time cheered***or booed. But the 1925 election night-.will probably go down on record as one of tho quietest Wellington has known—not to be compared with the hectic celebrations of years gone by. Perhaps it was the fejid-speakera that did.it; for one is. apit £8 become, discounted in endeavouring to drown the voice of a loud-speaker.-There wero certainly some pronounced -bursts of cheering, such a# greeted the 'JPrime Minister,- but the crowds were usually subdued/. It was the same' everywhere, as parties discovered whenthey toured from one board to another in' search of more excitement. Yet the crowds remained in full force until after' li o'ejock. It was only when thoughts of last cars or long walks became insistent that interest in the announcements began to diminish, and the crowds commenced their homeward journeys, "and so to bed," as Pepys might have written, "well satisfied'to know stable government assured for three years more, and a free/choice of beverages also io continue.'
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 110, 5 November 1925, Page 14
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IN THE STREETS
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 110, 5 November 1925, Page 14
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