SPEAKER DEFEATED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22198, 7 December 1946, Page 8

SPEAKER DEFEATED

ELECTION COUNT MR. NORDMEYER SAFE SEATS STILL UNCHANGED The official count of the general election figures for the Parnell electorate confirms the defeat of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Mr. F. W. Schramm, Labour candidate, by Mr. D. M. Rae, National. Mr. Rae’s majority has been increased from 50 on the provisional count to 206. The count is complete except for a small number of servicemen’s votes cast in England. Of the postal, absentee. declaration and seamen’s votes Mr. Eac received 537 and Mr. Schramm 379. ' The return of the Minister of Health, Mr. A. H. Nordmeyer. Labour candidate "for Oamaru. has also been confirmed on the official count. There is probably a small parcel of servicemen’s votes still 1o come which cannot affect the result. Mr. Nordmeyer’s majority of 174 on the preliminary count has been increased to 232. Of other doubtful seats, Mr. F. Langstone (Labour) has won Roskill, Mr.

T. E. Skinner (Labour) Tamaki. and Mr. T. P. Shand (National) Marlborough.

Details with provisional count figures in parentheses are:— Parnell.—D. M. Rae (National), 0059 (5507), F. W. Schramm (Labour) 5853 (5457). Majority for Rae 206 (50). Roskill.—-F. Langstone (Labour) 6557 (6189), R. G. McElroy (National) 6418 (5984). Majority for Langstone 139 (205). Of the postal, absentee, declaration and seamen's votes Langstone received 429 and McElroy 521. No service votes are included, but these are not sufficient to affect the result. Tamaki. —T. E. Skinner (Labour) 6730 (6285), J. G. C. Wales (National) 6511 (5965). Majority for Skinner 219 (320). Of the postal, absentee, declaration and seamen’s votes Skinner received 464 and Wales 552. No service votes are included.

Eden.—H. Fortune (National) 7055 (6376), W. Freer (Labour) 5774 (5489). Majority for Fortune 1281 (887). Ot the postal, absentee, declaration and seamen’s votes Fortune received 581 and Freer 346. The figures include 33 service votes for Fortune and 58 tor Freer.

Marlborough.-T. P. Shand (National) 6878, E. P. Meachcn (Labour) 6663. Majority tor Shand 215. Nelson—C. H. Goodman (Labour) 6626, E. R. Neale (National) 7223. Informal 78. Majority for Neale 597. The figures do not include soldiers’ votes. Oamaru, —A. H. Nordmeyer (Labour) 7079, T. R. Beatty (National) 6847, G. P. Cuttriss (Independent) 55. Informal 50. Majority tor Nordmeyer 232. Service votes, except for a small parcel, are included.

Fahiatua. —K. Holyoake (National), 8413; O. E. Nicdorer (Labour), 4713. Majority for Holyoake. 3760. Of the service votes to date Holyoake has received 43 and Niederer 48. Wairarapa.— G. H. Mackley (National) 7095: G. A. Hansen (Labour). 6860; informal, 173. Majority for Mackley, 235. Of the soldiers’ votes, Hansen received 75 and Mackley 30. This is not the final count, but. the votes to come will not affect the result. Auckland Centra!.— W. T. Anderton (Labour) 6768, F. L. A. Gotz (National) 3346. The preliminary count was Anderton 6421, Gotz 3055. Ponsonby.— R. MacDonald (Labour) 8233, P. E. Dempsey (National) 4858. The preliminary count was MacDonald 7723, Dempsey 4374. Marsdcn. —A. J. Murdoch (National) 7774, J. S. Stewart (Labour) 5608. Majority for Murdoch 2166.

Mount Albert.— A. S. Richards (Labour) 7628, F. A. Hosking (National) 5795. The preliminary count was Richards 7194. Hoskings 5417. Waitakere.— H. R. G. Mason (Labour) 8112, A. M. Laing (National) 5381. F. Allen (Independent) 234. The. preliminary count was Mason 7482. Laing 4921, Allen 210.

St. Kikla.—F. Jones (Labour) 7607, J. T. Ireland (National) 6397. Dunedin Central. —P. Connolly (Labour) 7566, T. K. S. Sidcy (National) 5503. „ , T , , , Dunedin North. —R. Walls (Laboui) 7791. N. H. Jones (National) 618 d. Miramar. —R. Semple (Labour) 8052, L. T. Jacobsen (National) 5581. Majority for Semple 2471. 1 Wellington Central.— C. H. Cnapman 6201 Mrs. A. L. Weston (National) 4520. Majority for Chapman 1681. Onslow.— H. E. Combs (Labour) <865, P P. Lynch (National) 6299. Majoiity for Combs 1566. Hastings— S. L. Cullen (Labour) 79 oo e N Pryor (National) 6776. Alajorßy for Cullen 457 Of the 14,904 electors on the roll, 14,069 voted Christchurch Cential.— L. R. C. Macfarlane (Labour) 8309, A. J. Wills (National) 3889, A. Osier (Communist) 302. Majority for Macfarlane 4420 Fendalton.-S. G. Holland (National) 8065, A. G. Williams (Labour) 5061. Majority for Holland 3004. Hurunui.— W. H Gißespic (N atlo 7131, J. Mathison (Laboui) 0681. Ma jority for Gillespie 1450,

Another Speaker of the House of Representatives to be d< ; f ® a ! ;cd ,. ‘'l, ..enera l electm n M Wh.le e that was® Speaker Horn 1879 to 1890. and from 1894 to 1902. For many years Sn v/tnuricc who was regarded as an outStag sSker represented M »*s u ,s;* S' St and was again defeated in the election ° f The 2 other two cases which paralle l the defeat of the present Speaker Mi. v W Schramm, are those of Sn r reel Napier in the 1943 election. ,j ia . UtaS ’representative Sf AickiS East He is . b.rmtcr and solicitor by profession.