Irregularities Hold Up Riccarton Recount
[Per Press Association. Copyright] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.
About 20 cases of apparently duplicated voting are holding up the final count in the Riccarton election contest, in which Mr T. H. Langford (Labour), has a lead of 38 votes over the sitting Nationalist member, Mr H. S. S. Kyle. The returning officer said this morning that he could not start hi's final count until each case of apparent duplication had been cleared up. He added that three cases had been put in the hands of the police. As for the 800 absentee and postal votes, no indication could be gained as to which candidate secured the bulk of them, as the law stipulated that before these outstanding papers could be tallied up, the recount of the votes already announced had to be completed. Interest has been heightened in the Christchurch North electorate, for it is understood that two errors discovered in the recount have added 50 votes to the total of the Labour candidate, Mr R. M. MacFarlane, who, on the first count, was 342 votes behind the sitting National member, Mr S. G. Holland.
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Northern Advocate, 21 October 1938, Page 7
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