ELECTION RESULTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19759, 13 October 1938, Page 5

ELECTION RESULTS

HERALD ARRANGEMENTS SPECIAL LARGE HOARDING LOUD-SPEAKEIi SEPVICK Special arrangements have been made by the Poverty Bay Herald for the announcement of election results on Saturday night from all parts of the Dominion, as well as from the Gisborne and Bay of Plenty electorates. The usual large hoarding will be erected in front of the Herald office, and progress reports from all electorates will be posted immediately they are received, while for the Gisborne electorate returns from each of the 61 polling places also will be displayed. The first returns are expected within a few minutes of the closing of the polls at 7 p.m. In 1935 the first booth to report did so six minutes after the closing time, and from then on reports came streaming in from all over the electorate. It was not long before progress reports also began to come from outside districts. The Gisborne result was completed by 9.30 p.m. On Saturday night, posting of the results will go on until midnight, when all election work will cease until Monday. Bv that time, however, most of the electorates will have reported their final results, and figures in the licensing poll should be fairly well forward.

In addition to the posting of the election figures, a public address system is to be .installed, and results will be announce'd from loud speakers as they are received.

So that the most efficient and prompt service will be given, the public is asked to refrain from entering the Herald office when the posting of the results commences, while telephone users are requested not to ring the office during the evening for results or other information, because all telephones will be fully occupied in the receipt of election results.

Maori election results to-morrow night will be displayed on the Herald window as soon as they come to hand. Police and Traffic Arrangements

Special arrangements are being made in Gisborne by the police and traffic departments to cater for the large crowd expected to gather outside the Herald office on Saturday night to watch the progress returns in respect to the general elections. All available police officers will be recalled to duty and the traffic in Gladstone road between the Peel street and Lowe street .Intersections will be stopped from 7 p.m. until midnight. In making the announcement regarding the closing of this portion of Gladstone road it was made clear by the traffic department that motorists who left their cars parked in that area after 7 p.m. would be unable to remove their vehicles until the crowd dispersed after midnight. Special arrangements have been made by the police and all the avail-