RESULT BY PIGEON
PROMPT ELECTION RETURN
Telephone and telegram and even pigeongram were the means used in the Eastern Maori electorate to secure a prompt return of last Friday's polling in the widespread electorate, in which the. large number of 190: booths were operating. A carrier pigeon was used to take the results from Motiti Island,, off the northern Bay of Plenty coast, to Tauranga to ensure prompt recording with the returning officer in Gisborne, where the figures, were ultimately received by telegram. This method, tried for the lirst time in the electorate in., at least recent years proved so efficient that the Motiti Island return Avas Recorded in Gisborne during the lirst hour after the closing of the jjoll. Only one result was outstanding on the
night of the poll, that being from Mangapoliatu,'in the Urevvera, where th<k nearest telephone was 14 liiiles aW ; ay.—Herald.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 12, 5 October 1943, Page 5
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146RESULT BY PIGEON Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 12, 5 October 1943, Page 5
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