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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 November 1925, Page 11

This was election day at'the Hawera Technical High School. In keeping with the greater emphasis laid on citizenship in modern high school education, the headmaster and his staff arranged for the pupils to take up and carry through all the arrangements, campaigning and polling essential to taking the electors 1 decision in a constituency, and for several days past candidates representing three political parties—Progressive, Welfare, and Formidable —have been vigorously urging their respective policies in the. dinner hour. Polling to-day was carried out under the supervision of J. Standish as “returning officer,’ 1 and resulted in an overwhelming victory for the Progressive “party” in the person of Miss Joan Tonks, who was the only lady candidate offering. She polled 82 votes, the other tallies being V. Walsh (Welfare) 33 and J. Sargent (Formidable) 23. Five votes were informal, but possibly these were deliberately spoiled by voters who either wished to lend an air of reality to the result or could not conscientiously support any of the three candidates. Gases of “blind” and “illiterate” voters were capably handled by the returning officer.