ON ELECTION NIGHT

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXV, Issue 3386, 23 November 1935, Page 5

ON ELECTION NIGHT

ANNOUNCING THE RESULTS INDEPENDENT'S SERVICE Detailed results of the General Election will be available at the Waikato Independent Office on Wednesday evening., A more up-to-date system than in the past will be used and progress reports from every electorate in the Dominion will be announced by loudspeaker as soon as they are received by telegram or wireless.

i For the Waikato Electorate a 14; large board has been prepared, on r which will be posted the; individual returns from the 44 polling booths, together with progress totals of the seats for the Dominion and also the position of the licensing poll. ■ /The loudspeakers will be provided the Dixori Public Address Syswhich operated successfully at the recent Labour Day races. The announcements will be made by a well-known local resident, and there is no doubt that he will sustain the interest for the crowd, which is expected to assemble in front of the Independent Office. Suitable gramophone records, supplied by Mrs Litchwark, the loeal H.M.V. dealer, will be played during the intervals, while the radio service will also "be provided by one of the latest H.M.V. models stocked by Mrs Litchwark. In Tuesday's issue of The Independent will appear a complete list of candidates, in their various electorates and as a space is provided for filling invi||§returns, the compilation should) be of interest in following the broadcast anrounecments. • " <• The staff of The Independent will be particularly busy on election night, and it will be < impossible to-answer cn<iuirie3 by, 'phone. Interest in the elections KEEN WAIKATO CONTEST As with all parts of the Dominion, the- contest for Waikato seat is .creating great interest and it is quite likely that a record number .T;r w bf votes will be cast. The fair ennjl- didates have -been sparing no effort in the furtherance of their respec- ;••,-. live causes and even polling can be expected. The Labour Party is represented for the first time in the Waikato, and the fact that a large number of the . workers at St. Peter's School have shown itheir colour in support of Mr Coulter, he should poll well in the Cariibridge district. Mr F. Lye, the sitting National candidate, is in

.*svhat '■lifis been recognised as a Jljcpfl. ;e%ect solid support. At the '■''■'--. <tast election he was strongly op- .■,,'■■ posed by Mr S. N. Ziman, wfto with Dr B. Annett gan again be ex- , ••"'■ pected to be. well supported.

Polling Booths . The followng* is a list of -the. polling booths available to residents of and the surrounding dis- { Wa]liato Electorate: Cambridge, ■the Town Hall; Goodwood, Public

v JScjtodLf Hautapu, the Public School; Mr C. C. Mann's House; the Town Hall; Ma-

y'fangi, the Public School; Scotch--5 jHnan's Valley,'Mr Alex. Ramsay's ."House; Taniahere, the Public School; .-'■. T.e Miro/the Public'School. v' Raglan Electorate: Hairini, the " vßangiaohia Public School; Kaipaki, v the Public School; Monavale, the . >Public School; Ohaupo, the Public Hall; Pukekura, Mr L. R| Lang's Residence; Roto-o-rangi, the Public School.

Rotorua Electorate: Arapuni, the

Theatre; Hinuera, Mr J. f v'Bower's Residence and the Public 'V- School; Horahora, the Power Sta\tion; Karapiro, the Public Hall; TNJaungatautari, No. 2 School and the '■Public Hall; Pairere, the Public School; Tirau, the Tirau Hall; Whitehall, the Public School. A Public Holiday Election day on Wednesday will be deemed a public holiday after ~ mid-day and it will not be lawful to sell intoxicating liquors in any 'licensed premises after 12 noon. Factories need not close during ■ v working hours on polling day, provided that each employee is given •'. a reasonable opportunity to record his or her vote without any deduction from wages.