NEWS AND NOTES.
The Rev John Dawson, organiser of ,the Prohibition Party, states that 27 of the members reported to have been elected to the new Parliament favour the retention of the three-fifths majority on the liquor question. All the others support the reduction of the majority to 55 per cent - on national prohibition. Twenty-one favour the bare majority.
At one of the polling booths on Thursday (says the Auckland Herald) a lady was noticed to walk up to the electoral box and drop her paper in, but to ignore the box set aside for the licensing papers. She was challenged by the deputy in charge as to the whereabouts of these papers, but refused to give any information. The deputy insisted, however, and at last she was induced to produce them from the depth of her umbrella. As the law is very stringent on the question of taking papers out of the booths, the lady in question took a decided risk, but what her object was can only be conjectured.
Something in the nature of a sensation occurred in an Invercargill church on Sunday last (states the Otago Times). The parson took for his subject. “ Bible-reading in Schools,” and was strongly advocating this change in the educational system, when a leading member of the congregation rose from his seat, and, in stentorian tones, uttered a protest against the minister endeavouring to influence the minds of the congregation on the question which loomed large at Thursday’s election. It was some time before the serenity of the congregation was restored.
How familiar the whole scene will be when Parliament meets again, says the Eltham Argus. Nearly all the same faces will be visible again. When a general election comes along, it is generally estimated that about a third of the sitting members will be displaced. On this occasion—as the figures stand at the present moment —there are only seven members who have not been in Parliament before. There was never a new Parliament with so few colts in it.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1338, 19 December 1914, Page 4
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338NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1338, 19 December 1914, Page 4
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