SIXTY MORE VOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17527, 2 May 1925, Page 1

SIXTY MORE VOTES.

MR SIM ADVANCES TO FIFTEENTH PLACE. COUNCIL ELECTION RECOUNT. Mr W. J. Sim, one of the Citizens Association!; nominees for the City Council elect: in, who was last on the list of successful .candidates, acording to the privisional returns made available early on Thursday morning, has b f ei|n advanced?;- to fifteenth place as the Insult of the discovery of a mistake which had deprived him of sixty votes. Mr T. H. Butterfield (Labour) is now the sixteenth man. • The discovery of another mistake has resulted in Mr C. T. Aschman’s total being increased by a hundred votes, and he now’ takes ninth instead of eleventh place, having been advanced above the Rev C. L Carr (Labour) and Mr A. M’Kellar (Citizen's Association). Mr Albert Freeman, the asistant returning officer, stated this morning that he did not think there was any likelihood of the personnel of the candidates already announced as elected, being changed. The figures would, of course, be changed as a result of the recount, but not to such an extent as to alter the result of the election. The mistake in Mr Sim's total occurred in the addition of the progress returns on the large counting sheet which could not be checked on Wednesday night. The mistake in Mr Aschman's total occurred at one ol the polling places.