Election Curiosities.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3, 21 July 1906, Page 11

Election Curiosities.

Two curiosities -wre recorded by. the London papers in connection with the reeent election. In the annual election of one-third of the members of the Chiswick Urban District Council, Mr E. Stone and Air Arthur Buckingham, the two candidates for the vacancy in the Old Chiswick Ward, entered into.'an agreement not to canvass the electors, either personally or by agent; not to print or cause to be printed, or cause to be exhibited in any house or window, any window-card or bill seeking voles; and not to use on the polling-day any vehicle for the conveyance of voters to the poll. The penally for any breach ot this agreement was the payment by the offender of the whole of the election expenses of the other, the agreement to be null and void in the event of any other candidate being nominated for the ward. No other candidate was nominated, and the conditions of the agreement were faithfully observed. Air Stone was .returned by 364 votes to 124.

In the West Ward and Finchley. Alessrs Bennett and Harveyson tied for second place on the jxrll with 355 votes each. Mr Harveyson was the siltfug member. The retiring officer decdined-to give his casting vole, and the two names were written down and put in a policeman's helmet. The 'one drawn, by a police-sergeant, was the slip of paper bear jpg," Mr Bennqtl’J name, and Mr Jlennlett was declared elected. '4 ,