IN PALMERSTON NORTH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 285, 5 November 1925, Page 11

IN PALMERSTON NORTH.

ANOTHER REFORM TRIUMPH. MR NASH’S INCREASED MAJORITY. By an overwhelming majority of over 3000 Votes in the heaviest poll ever recorded in the Palmerston electorate, the Reform candidate, Mr J. A. Nash, was returned for the fourth time to represent this constituency. Tlio total number of votes cast, with absent votes, will he nearly 10,000, as compurod with 8957 in 1922, when there were three candidates in the field, who polled as follow: J. A. Nash 4733, J. Hodgens 3000, V. A. Christensen 558. Just to what extent Mr Nash lias strengthened his position, is seen from the fact that he has increased over six-fold his 1922 majority over liis opponents of that election, and the confident utterances made by him during his campaign have been more than justified. On the other hand, Labour’s prophecy “that the Palmerston seat was going to bo another win for Labour,” have been as decisively falsified. The polling arrangements generally and the promptitude with which tho results were released reflect a liberal meed of credit on the Registrar of Electors (Mr G. H, Lang) and his assistants. On all hands were hoard laudatory references to tho polling facilities, especially at tho Showgrounds, where absent voters and others exercised tho franchise in the speediest possible manner.