FIRST VOTE AT 36.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20307, 15 July 1929, Page 12

FIRST VOTE AT 36.

THE BRITISH ELECTIONS. CHILDREN ON THE ROLL. There was every indication in Sheffield, on tho occasion of the British general elections, that the unknown quantity, the women's vote, was being taken very seriously. Thousands of young girls from the factories and shops availed themselves of their half-day holiday to go en masse to the polling booths. I heir demeanour was strikingly decorous, and it was obvious that they were taking their new responsibilities very seriously. On the whole the election was very orderly, and there were no untoward incidents. In one or two instances children who had been inadvertently admitted to the electors' . roll presented themselves at the polling booths, but on being warned of the consequences if they voted they declined to run the risk. The oldest voter in the city was Mr. Joseph Dyson, aged 95, an old Nonconformist preacher and temperance reformer. Mr. Dyson, although warned by his doctor not" to leave home, insisted upon exercising his. tight as a citizen. A large number of blind persons went to the poll, and at one station a woman of 86 voted for the first time in her life.