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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 11 May 1921, Page 4

1 to a representative of the Christchureh Press on Tuesday, an American bwMness man, while express | ing himself as charmed with a. gr eat ~ dea of what he had seen of New S'■ I land and of Christchurch, said he-was ! surpriwd, indeed, almost shocked at the comparatively little interest that the election excited among a very conj siderable proportion of the population, las indicated by the fact that out of , 2b,900 persons on the electors' roll only 14,041 took sufficient interest n the management of the city to cast' their votes In Minneapolis; he said I a city inhabited by as mixed a popul lation as is to be found in the State I every country in Europe bein| represented in it, 93 per cent of thoVe c - ' R, % h dld -a- Here in a "hoik Butish community, whose members might be expected to possess the saml interests, only 52 per cent trouble?™' J?£'rrf 6? Ch * Stat6 °f things he hearty fa»\L% Chr jst + chur T ch ' and he undoubtedly right. Last month's poll i which was smaller by nearly 4000 votesl than was the case four years a"own* no credit to the city. ° ' as , We buy and .sell used machmerv of! every description Lathes, machine.1 tool,, milling machinery, gas, oil and steam engines, etc.. etc. In W^or selling you get satisfaction from thl Manning Machinery Co., 5 Bedford Row, Christchurch.— Advt. Jsearoi«j '^o^bbing" Laundry Help ,& quite the life of the grocery trade j u ? now, the demand being so hea?v Johnson and Co. wholesale agents for -No Jtiibbng."—Advt.