NEW COMMITTEES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 8

NEW COMMITTEES.

■HOUSEHOLDERS' MEETINGS. SEVERE LADIES ELECTED. The annual mefejiirgs of -househialdeva to elect school cotn'riwttecs for tlie -ei)sn'lll'g twe'lvo months wi-o held l'asi erenmg. Tlio interest taken ,iii the elections was evidenced hy tlio attend* an-co at tho various meetings. mourn GQQt More fcli-aji ordinary iii|crest was taken in the dectioii n.t Mouiifc Ooofc School, and something Hko flvo hundred Jionsehoklers attended. Women ivera present- to strong force., -aiid appeared to be in a majority. Only ai)Q"ut uali' of tho householders iioiitd 'bo accommodate! ia the room used tor |ho liveetiiig, and tho 'outside- 'iii the Vesti' bulo and. lii djiniy-iightod adjoiiii-ftg rooms,, Several prijiited flards ivero circulated, hearing tlio names of "tickets" of nii'ie candidates. 'On© of these, cards Was headed., ''Vo/to for Labour," "Social D'emoeratii) j/arty," and bore the na'n'ies ■of Wsdl-ktiowi! Social pemocj-ats and fiHteratioiiists< including Mr. J. Glove-rj wlro was recently a. candidate for tlio city Mayoralty. The |i : j'oc.ecdings''a : .t the -meeting Vera quite, orderly,'aijdt'hefe was notiliMg to- Suggest tllil't irregularities -occurred, hut jit the- sauro Eiiiifi it vfas very apparent that tlio EJiiiple arrangements which Suffice when.a roiv dqzeii people .meet to cjeefc- a cfliffiuiHtqo are quite te'adc' ■ quale ivhoii jueh '-ai'.hirgo number assemble as wero :preseiVt at the Mouwfc Coofe School last 'cVfiiriftg. Apart, from the fact that only- jibou't half the householders ivero able... to hear what was going on at this meeting, the polling was carried out under conditions' wliiori do not inalce. lor efficiency.. \Vlyen voting commenced at 9 p.m. the vestibule door was locked,- and people iii the meeting* room were passed into a smaller room beyond to record their votes, those ia : .,tbo vestibule and In other rooms joining the jiroecssion as the tfay cleared, leaked at from the s-ta-ndpoliit of pub* lie safety, the .conditio!©, -w.er& .such aSi would not ho tolerated, at ordinary times .'in any Public, hall. The c'rowde'l building with its crumped eiite Would. have beeaine a death-top in, the event o.i' an outbreak of fire, White tha-meo-ting. 'was tt'ndef way, -and al.sO \vlifle the polling ktos .going on, rnai-iy -O'f Wio peppfe .-pre--fleftt we're- ;sitvi»§ at desks designed for childiijii of tO.ider years., -and this ...c'ir(.oumstauca' alcjiio, .had as- paiiic accttrrodi -would necessarily lya'ye caused a great deal of eonffisichi -a'-nd delay, .til -all" ST-i Candidates were .liommafed. The- pelting : .oceu-]iied just about a-ii-'houE,. and i.j.l all ■ , -K>2 valid Votes' and .8 iiiformat votes were 'cast- A liu.mber Of peti,p}o left without recording their votes. Following is the personnel of -tlio elected committee, with -the .ifflm : b<!r of votes cast for each candidate :-H3. H, Bar* rat,t,-13.5; W.-E. '?«&«, 181; 8.-StmjJ* son, VM) Q, % 128; &. Mliser, WS.;, H. % E,. Gi-avo, 125 i .W. ' Hobbs, 12'51■ It..'fl/. M'Sair, 123; J, T. Griitfn, 120. ■ : ~ , The unsuccessful ciaiiojaatcs ivCtO:— J[r. J. Glover,. 93.; Mrs, Bowflldsdn, 8*); Messrs. S. Gordon, 88 i 0, L. ApderSQii.SQi &. L. Hae, B£V; H. J. Pa.-Ic.ißii, BS-- V. U Ledbrook, -81; E. Houfie,, 83; 'J, .ft I'mmbu'H, SI Khe |or.egpiiig ii-'rno caftdidate.s were, tlio .Social- Boiiiocvatio ticket)-j Johnson-,' 30 i'l'Wsonago.v. 28; Williams, t!) EUis, 27 ; Bi-qcc. 3; Tre-4-gol'd.'O-. ' ■■', ~„.. Messrs. 'Parsonage- and Ellis were mcml»ers of the ' late committee. 'Ihft only other member of the late comrou-. tea' not elected was Mr. Gardener, wto did not stand »slho had moved mt.o another dktriot. Tho liicmtor-s of the liciv coniroiUeo me* last night :aiid elected, the following officers fOfr. W. E- cli*vMUaiH "Mr. a "H, Barfatt, secretary; and Mr. W. Hobbs, t-i'ea.sui:6r, • the ■committee cliair'man-Ww. \*-, »• Fuller):, wheii i) 0 waS spoken -to last nifiM, agreed that fljo avftifoWo «c°»* modatioii had, hceii ipadequato for the meeting of .houselioldofi, hut ■poin.tcQ mt «rat the cOinniittfeO Mrf JlO itv to iiicvs* tlve:cspc.uso that ivould o? oivtaitetl' in sceifrke -hetior tio.ii. lie added that d§spito the- lijhi» taiions'of the accoiftmodafciou the «le* tionliad-bec-ri carried out Wi a perfectly orderly, way. ..