KEEN INTEREST.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 December 1924, Page 7

KEEN INTEREST.

ELECTION OF A.S.R.S. DELEGATES

SIXTY CANDIDATES: (By Telegraph; Special to the Star). WELLINGTON, Dec. 10. hJM 1 ® railwaymen’s ballot on the election for members of the biennial con°t the Amalgamated Society of V ? nts \ as i ust been comu throughout- New Zealand, and the ballot papers are being counted at the society’s head office in Wellington, liie pi oportional representation system tLwF follo r dj and lt is expected that the results will not be complete f ° r nVl eek ’ a s •there are over sixty candidates. Great interest has been taken in the following so closely after the railway strike. The Dominion, for the purpose of the eleecies, each electing five delegates to the conference. No fewer than 33 candidates are contesting the ten North Is and seats, and 26 are, divided between the two Smith Island constituencies, which return ten delegates. ~A,® society’s conference opens in Wellington in the first week in February, and will be followed in March bv the national election of president on the system of proportional representaTkV on ballot closing on March 14. Mr M Connelly, the present holder of the office.- will seek re-appointment, and another candidate already announced is a former president—Mr E. Hampton, late of Addington, and now stationed at the Petone railway workshops.