Polling To-day

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXX, Issue 276, 27 November 1935, Page 5

Polling To-day

With four candidates in the field for tttie Waipawa seat, interest in the election this yefar has been intensified. There waJs a feeling of excit'ememt in the aw in Waipukiwau to-day, with a large number of people and many cars about the streets. Poking is taking place in the primary school, where there ard throe ordinary booths, a,nd one for absent voters. The first results are expected to come through hbout 7.30 ,‘p.m., half am hour after polling closes. The final result of the Waipawa dleetion should bo available about 8.30 o’clock. Children’s Ball A I'arge attendance., including visitors from Danncvilrke Is expected at the children’s plain and fancy dress 'daned to be held in the Municipal Theatre on Friday evening, in; aid of the Maori Queen (MisiS Hino Hutlana). Numerous prizes for the best costumes will be presented, and Father YHwisthias wl’ll be present. Les An’delnson’s Orchestra is to jpirovide the music and dancing will be reserves fo adults after 10 o’clock.

'Marriage * ‘Monotonous ’ ’ Ait the Metho ditsit Synod a member •was .reading a report on Christian marriage, staftes the "Taranaki Herald.” "Chtiiistian marriage is monogamous,” he said. Another member who had 'Been dozing was suddenly ailert. "What was ftTfat?’’ he asked. The flpjeakeir repeated his statement. "Oh,” said the disillusioned, "I thought yon said 'monotonous’.”

‘‘Should bo Five Years” He had 'always held thatl the length of Parliament in New Zealand should 'be .the' same as in Britain, Lie., five years. No Parliament could achieve its policy s'm three years ,said Mr J. A. Nash, when speaking at tho Coromialtfilon hall lasit evening. At least he was afraid that it would be four years 'before he would be facing tho electors again. Much Favoured Centre! Havelock North electors were in high favour last evening, they having been singled out by two of the field of four candidates for the Waip ( awa electorate as the final audience for the campaign- The Village Hall, where Mr J. D. Ormond addressed the electors, was crowded to overfl.owi.ng, and Thiis) left ohly a small audience for Mr W. L. Barker, the Democrat candidate. However, the Independent’s meeting was first to finish, .and quite a number of his audience made for the Town Board Hall for the finish of the Demo--■erat’is meeting, the doorway being jammed with late comers, among whom, incidentally, was the rival candidate. 1

Art of Fly Fishing. A suggestion that the society should do something towards teaching boys to fly-fish properly was made by Mr. R. Ashworth, at a meeting of the council of the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society. He said the chairman (Mr. C. F. Champion) might undertake the work. “I would be pleased if anyone could tell where to catch fish just now, let alone- , teaching boys how to fish,” replied L Mr. Champion, amidst laughter. Nothing was done.

Mount Jellicoe. When the late Earl Jellicoe learned in 1923 that one of the famous "Navigator group” of peaks in the Southern Alps was named after him, he said it gave him an unusual thrill of pride to be placed in the company of such men as Cook, Tasman, La Perouse, Hicks and Dampier—the other peaks of the group. At an Alpine gathering in Wellington the year before his departure from the Dominion, the Governor-General . was presented with an enlarged photograph of the peak, with La Perouse towering in the background. Mount Jellicoe was first climbed and named shortly after the Battle of Jutland in 1915, by a party consisting of the present president of the New Zealand Alpine Club, Ms. H. F. Wright, (Mr. H. C. Chambers and the well- ¥ known guide, Conrad Kain.