TARANAKI BY-ELECTION.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14893, 16 October 1918, Page 1 (Supplement)

TARANAKI BY-ELECTION.

MR S. SMITH ELECTED

DEMOCRATIC LABOUR

CANDIDATE.

[United Press Association.]

New'" Plymouth, Oct. 30. The Taranald by-election was held to-day, and evoked considerable interest. The result was as fololws: — Sydney Smith, Democratic Labour 2840 J" B. "Gannett, National Govt. ... 2680 In. 1911 the' majority of the late Mr H. J. H. Okey (R-eform) was 754, and in 1914 it was 1134.

Mr S. Smith, who is an employee of the Railway Department, is a son of the late Mr E. M. Smith, a former member for Taranaki.