DAIRY CONTROL BOARD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18586, 19 December 1923, Page 12

DAIRY CONTROL BOARD.

NORTH ISLAND VOTES. • £;« TICKET " STILL LEADING. ' IW TiLBOILArH.—OWK CT-aßSiSrOtfMW*.] i' -"" •• -J ' > -,-"''.' -WELLINGTON, Tuesday. ■ ijj* The counting -of the votes cast for the I ; 'election of the - members of the Dairy V^plMu&o- Control Board is still proceeding, : t, aid. it is expected that the North Island ';;*? voting. papers I will all' be disposed of '.by ~ to-morrow. -At mid-day .to-day there still : - remained about 1500 papers to be counted. " 'The work is necessarily tedious; and .ma-. "fc- poses:a^ great strain upon' the eyes of the *-'. returning officer's staff. The counting of P the South Island votes will now ;be com- : rvmenced, and there is every likelihood fe* that the result will he known on Thurs- .,.-* day. The official declaration of the result 0 of ■'this election will be published on Sat- -? urday. -The- "ticket" was still in the .■[W lead at- noon to-day. Invalid votes ate * comparatively . few in number. i = ;. ;«j? The deputy: chief returning officer, Mr. ''-.>" G. G. Hodgkins, has received some amus-. Minj'.- letters arising out of the ballot. som/o --of which; indicate that the farmer is not . ■ii .so-devoid of humour, nor so dull as some pewple might imagine. 'One letter plays r-*'npi:iii the. names of half a; doaen v of the • candidates in the following manner:— a We 'ofi Fear we are not, Pacsy enough to pick the . :wiiming six, but by using a little Forsyth (foresight) we moYe the following Motion. , jr on the-Grounds of being r a Goodfellow, '• that the above be elected." The letter is, of course, entirely in jest, and lias no invalidating effect: J;* JLLLEGED • ISSEGULASITXUS. ■J. V;'. INVESTIGATION ; DEMANDED. '~; \'V'\. {Vt ■'; TRtfiGlUrH.-— ASSOCIATION.] ~?l, 'V',..■;':>"; /' TE AWAMUTU. Tuesday. , >**; ; The Dominion president of the Dairy -.Farmers' Union. Mr. 0. Parker, has been .v? advised that only two out of 35 suppliers "-■:'&t the Makowai (Manawatu) Dairy Company received ballot {wipers for the Dairy .*-* 'Control Board election, despite the fact a that all voted at the first poll. The chairc' man of the- company, who nominated two «* candidates, was told later that his name does not appear on any roll, and hence he ** asks Why he was accepted as a nominator. f His protest to the Minister and to the returning officer was not entertained, al- ■! though dissatisfaction prevails among suppliers also. Mr. Parker received advice to-day from Mr. R. Cobbe that his scrutineer had informed him that large blocks of votes from the North were found in the first *-• few ballot boxes, all obviously marked by ,';: some agency. Mr. Parker adds that these --• complaints and allegations demand investi- ;•■ gation. : -■■ ■'■ ,