DATE FOR RECOUNT NOT YET FIXED

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5295, 7 January 1947, Page 6

DATE FOR RECOUNT NOT YET FIXED

Raglan Electorate HAMILTON, last night. IN'o date has yet been fixed for conductiug the ma°"isterial recount in connection with the Raglan electorate contest on November 27, but it is expected to take place this month. The delay is due to the"non-arrival of 'ballot papers used by members of the New Zealand Oceupation Force in Japan, and until these are available for production to the magistrate the recount v/ill not be started. It is understood that the ballot papers from Japan are the only ones outstanding from overseas. Those from the United Kingdom and 'Europe have already reached the Dominion by air. Major G. E. Pollock, the special returning officer for the New Zealand Oceupation Force in Japan, left a Japanese port for Australia by steamer on Christmas Day. He has with him the ballot papers used by members of t'he Force. No word has been received from Major Pollock by the chief electoral office in Wellington, since he left Japan, but it is expected that on his arrival in Sydney he will avail himself of the first opportunity of finishing his journey to New Zealand by air. 'The recount was originally to have been held in Hamilton on December 30 and 34, Mr. S. L. Paterson -S.M., having granted an application by Mr. A. L. Tompkins, on behalf of Mr. Hallyburton Johnstone, the' unsuccessflul candidate against Mr. Alan Baxter.