Organising Triumph
KAIKO: ..HE, Thu. (Sp.).—“Give us another election or two and we will be one of the earliest electorates to have our final result,” smiled the returning officer for Hobson (Mr E. G. Tyiei happily when the hurly-burly had died down in the Kaikohe Courthouse last night. With a total of 120 booths at 113 polling-places, spread over 200 miles of scattered countryside, Hobson must be one of. New Zealand’s most sprawling electorates.
Yet the organisation was such that results from all but eight of the 113 polling - places were in hand before 9 p.m.
All post offices other than the central office at Kaikohe had been officially released from duty by the returning officer by 9.45 p.m.
Five minutes before, he had received his final return.
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Northern Advocate, 1 December 1949, Page 7
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