HOW TO FORECAST POLLS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1739, 2 May 1913, Page 4

HOW TO FORECAST POLLS.

ONE WAY TO DO IT, (By Telegraph.— Special Correspondent.) Wanganui, May 1. 11l connection with yesterday's municipal elections, die boys an<l girls in tho upper standards of tho Avenue School were given u practical lesson in citizenslnp in tho shapp of a mock election, on tho same issues and with the same Candida) es as their fathers and mothers were voting in earnest upon In"tho town. Tho result, certainly showed (hat the yomifj folk took moro than a liltio interest in puWio affairs, for the. Mayoral candidates were placed in exactly tho same order ,ns in the. genuine election, while, of the twelve successful candidates for tho Borough Council, (he .youngsters "elected" Woven. Tltero was a slight change in the personnel of the Harbour Hoard, and this was also reflected .in tho school voting, where tho result was the selecting; of tlio «uuo candidates as in (own. I'liroo out of four successful candidates for tho Hospital Board were chosen, one of thn lady members being "turned down" Though Saturday is the weekly holiday for the srhools, the youthful voters hail evidently closely followed and been impressed by tho arguments of, the Thursday party, for they chose the latter day by a five to one majority. Perhaps, in tho future, this may prove a fairly accurate way of forecasting results of polls. It seems to reflect tho "talk at home," and a poll, taken in any bid school More an election, would probably not bo a bad indication of wliat would happen oil the actual voting day.