GENERAL ELECTION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 284, 4 December 1935, Page 8

GENERAL ELECTION

PALMERSTON NORTH SEAT LABOUR MAJORITY FALLING ( Per Press Association. J PALMERSTON N., Dec. 3. Postal votes counted today reduced Mr. Hodgen’s (Labour/ margin to 99. The new totals are: Hodgens, 4422: Mansford (Independent l . 4343; Nash (National? 4126. There are 870 Absentee votes yet to be counted. GISBORNE [ Ter Press Associaton. I GISBORNE* Dec. 3. The ofti' iai count is: Coleman. 6225; Lysnar, 4408. Coleman’s majority has been increased from 1681 to J "17. NAPIER. [ Per Press Association. J NAPI EK. Dec. X The official recount resulted: Barnard, 7290; Jacobsen, 396; Logan. 3233; Wood, 141. Barnard's majority increased from 3867 to 4"’7. AVON. [ Per Press Association. I CHRISTCHURCH. Dec. 3. The official count for Avon was concluded to-day, resulting: Sullivan, 8955; Walker, 3545. Mr. Sullivan’s majority was increased from 5139 to 64i0. HUTT. ( Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, Dec. 3. A record poll fnr Hutt Valley, an ! probably for New Zealand, is revealed in the official recount of the votes for the Hutt electorate, completed to-day. The figures are: W. Nash 11,873; V. E. Jacobson 4116; informal 304. Majority for Nash 7757. There are 17,7-86 electors on the roll and 16.293 votes were cast. MAINTENANCE ORDERS DEFEATED CANDIDATES CHARGED [ Per Press Association. I AUCKLAND, Dec. 3. A candidate for the Bay of Islands seat at the general election, Robert Edward Hornblow, appeared in the Magistrate's Court before Mr. \V. R. McKean, S.M.. charged with failing to comply with a maintenance order for 7s M a week in respect of his former wife. Questioned by the maintenance officer, defendant said he conducted a weekly newspaper in North Auckland which, however, had lost headway rapidly in the bad times. All the takings were paid into the bank and defendant drew out about £4 a week, £3 if which he paid in wages to an assistant. The Maintenance Officer: You stood for Parliament, did you not ? Defendant: J did. The Maintenance Officer: What did it tost you? Defendant: Nothing. My supporters pa id. Questioned by the magistrate, defendant said he had lost his deposit money, which had ben lent to him by a relative. Defendant continued that his wife went away with another man, defendant to her obtaining a divorce, the expenses of which he paid. •‘At 46 odd years of age 1 was worth £20.000,” he added. The maintenance officer said that defendant's former wife was destitute in Dunedin. The arrears of maintenance amounted to over £3O. “It is apparently more profitable *'■ he a politician than the proprietor of n newspaper.” remarked the magistrate, who said there did not appear tn be a wilful default, and the matter would be dismissed. Stated in evidence l-v his wife t ■ have contested a Maori seat under lrMaori name. Selwyn Hovrll. dentist, of Waihi. was also charged with fail ing to comply with a maintenan In a letter to the Court defendant said his business ha 1 been badly affected by the mining strike. A sentence of two months’ imprisonment was imposed, which the magistrate said would be suspended as lone; »*• defendant n aintained current pa .-• rents and paid 5s a week off the arrears.