LIVELY INTEREST

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 105, 6 May 1931, Page 11

LIVELY INTEREST

MAYORAL RESULTS EARLY

FAIItLY HEAVY VOTING

■Voting appears to bo ■.'fairly■• heavy to-day, for; though the- weather is not too good there is a- steady stream pi' electors through tho various . polling places. .: The . main . voting.: centre i.s again tho Town Hall, where -there arc twenty-two booths, the others.) about 'tho city and.'.the- suburbs having from seven booths' downwards.)s): •:■;; ;- ; ! v :. Tho, rule, that. '.tickets.must;. riot be taken into■ the booths;is. .this. year observed just ■ as,;. well as '.in. previous, years, that; is,'/ whenever ,) someone- is ■looking,)blif the)avcra!g6 elector .finds, it -jiist about .impossible, .to. make up' his.: mind; !fi;orii! lists )of! 35 .candidates; .for .the' City' Council, ;31 .'f or;the ''■' Hospital Board,; ;and; ;v: 9, ;■> for:^thO;>SHa,rbpur. Bb'ard,f though ;thb>last :is)not so)badi The Mayoral; issue.is;easy enough,;-with tho'. J imhd:,niade;^up^ :;-'-::.----!<;:;':.:? ■ .'• ):;;;: ■'"■ ■::The;ayMeih' of f:v6ting,'-too,r:must^be; puzzling'mariy. electors,:: for/it-is more troublesome to { strike out all 'but fif teen, ithaii:-: to -place ; crosses .-.opposite. flfteehlnames. / :\Ther.elis:.'no::Compulsib3i ;tp; vote -fpiv the1:, .full. ?l';numbei', but." if moire.'-'.thanithe.required) !number.;:'.are. left"the);yptiiig:paper, gpjQ.s.'?te)the: -clis; card,''mM'ke.ci..ihl'Qunal,;; an,d tlie probability )is;!; that;)' the );■ tptal: of . such" irifpr'mai i^p.tes: will again, be high.-V';>■.'). :;:-V-^Rmma,.oqUT|o^|cECISSBS? V i'r:;;Vl|Ipt-'-sb'me"!years^"!:past.,aiib:/Munioipal-Assoei&tionßlias. '"endeilvourcd ■'to. hayp the? Ac'i ■ amended:,tb }p«''mil; of'inarkiiig balloi-paper'si ;.'with s '".orossjesj■'; instead pf ! striking) put;:but. tliisVrndve has >^bec'n pbjeete'djitb^oiis the aground"; thafc'it. is wise ■' tliatl :ypting::-'pf ocedure .in ' both State-"and -nniriicipa;l)eleetipfis"shall: be; 'the}' :samdi;/::;T6- !this)!'thb-;municipalities axply that ithe. circumstances'are/not, at .air-the-'same, forinaJGeneraltEleetidu. :there^-,arei)atJ iritjst,';three !pr! !f d^riames :pn ! each) ballot-paper,' i but! in !;'; a<' muni-, cipal! election Stho lists/become1 exceed-; inglyf- handsome;"). evenj/thirty^veriipt, nearlyitouchirigjthevrfleofd:;'; ;y':'(:■'::: ":;'^- : i^V-eryvcbnipiete; .'arrangements ■')• have been made by'"l;he;;Chief:;Eottiruirig.pf"fie e'r/'Mjrl'^B; -': -y"th>.^Assistant Chief.xßeturmhg;OißcerV«Mri;B;?O.;^et^ erspn] to^cnsurevthattlie re"sults;'wi}li;be; ;rcc.eiyed)at:>the: Town 'Hall .-iwitli-.the; leastjjpbßsiblo ■; delay.'; after \the jclbsihg: of tho 'Motlis/at; 7- o'clock; and';.forithe .fcheekiig^'iin'''d\"<jrpss-crie_cking;vp£ l ;', bo'ptli and! to tal L bo'uiits. ;);,- Prpvidiiigthat'there are);npi;hitc]}M,) whi!ch)is spmothingj'to; be};h6peft^for}'jather.Athail;^guaTanteed^ the -Mayoral result should be announced : so6n;af ter ;8 ;:b ?elOck,;But,'CityVObuiYsil; Hos'pital;:Bb^ra,;aiiaJHarbpur Board,re-; suits' may 7 not,b6 known until ;quite un-;: 'pl^saKtlyvlate/:;,;-.:;\};::>J;:v.'';}-;'V;,;V^.;;.y',;.-'^:;:'f ;;)! Even? soothe.'results;a^:; double;-check-' ed;io^igiit^ll?npt;te[completeVas dp-; :olaratipn^voftsf\viU -not bpjtaken'vintb; 'account ■fttn'tilii-tiiey ?hayb;;been:)c:b! belted, off later in; 'thie' week;"; )!On!:seyeral : past 'oeeasioiis)jtkei'.G'*has)J bedn:,uncortaiiity over';thbl fifteen;' arid ) sixteentli»!plaeings for-ithc^cburi'cilvandz^ flftebnthVfpr^the/Hpspita^Board,; caiis-: ing,ho ;merriin'ent : whatever i to - the;: can-] 'did|tes '^ft'amdpubt ''for/a; ;!'da>yj^or vtwq.! f-^'^TOEMPL<)y^pLß^sls':;fe;}V ; "Tlie ireturningjoffleers ■ at)tho "various; polling places vareiin?most: casesVnieni:bers of;;tjie)council!staff';. wha'Aayerhad previous-'experience:-in; 'the'V'w'o/kj-^b'ut1 as'far as possible;:the; Chief SKpturniug Officer;-, filled)i.!tli a ; '-rjositions.)pf,■: polling; :clerksl';frpni?mne'mpio'ye^^^ pflleo^wbrkers. \: :All but: a:;dozeir;or sol bf vthpsei;wlio. applie,d::stating:,that they: weroy'out •'of '-. cmploymeht''; .'and' giving satisfactory-evidence of,; their: csipa- 1 city to, do the work: wore plac,ed by ;Mr.. ■ 'Tait ?inc: ; ;pne':; capacity 'or'Vanbther.;"; As' has happened in-previous elections;some ■ of ;bflicers /t ;cierks,:;;a.nd -stewards : were unable; t'p■turn up;this niorning,for f'orie ■ reason': or," andthe.r,; arid: some': ■of . : thdse>.whoh:cflulcl,not .-be'■piaced-earlier ; and attended the Town Hall;this;morii'.'..' ing yoii'^cii.ance ."-were; sent ;oiit; ■ :.;rejoic-, :ing, a;t?shp*t : *nPticei;.L / .;.T;/;';;VK/■;i;':;--;';i" ;