AUCKLAND ELECTION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 844, 16 June 1910, Page 5

AUCKLAND ELECTION.

POLLING TAKES PLACE TO-DAY. 1 PECULIAR ANOMALY. IBr TeleEraDh.-Press Association.! Auckland, Juno 15. The various candidates for the Auckland East gave their final ' addresses this evening, and the by-election takes place to-ruorrow. Five candidates will go to the poll, as follow:— Arthur M. Myers (Independent Liberal). George Davis (Labour and Temperance). ■William Richardson (Prohibitionist and Protectionist). George" M'Knight (Labour). Reginald AValter Hill (unofficial Oppositionist). There are 83V0 voters on the Auckland East main and supplementary rolls. THE HALF-HOLIDAY. (By Telegraph/—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, June 15. The provisions iu tho Act. for the observance of a half-holiday on the days .of Parliamentary elections, will give rise to a pecular anomaly in the city to-morrow ■when the by-election for Auckland East will take place. The result will be that as Queen Street .is the boundary of the electorate in which the election will be held, all the hotels on the eastern side of the main thoroughfare'will be closed to-morrow afternoon, whilst those on the ■western side of the street will be under do obligation to close their. doors during the hours named. In regard to shops, it is provided that,when the polling day.is other than th* day appointed for the weekly half-holiday, it shall take the place for that purpose of the half-holiday Df tho day so appointed. Thus to-morrow afternoon the shops on the eastern side of Queen Street and in all parts of the City East electorate will be required to tslose in place of this afternoon.