CARNIVAL QUEEN CONTEST

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 75, 20 July 1914, Page 5

CARNIVAL QUEEN CONTEST

In connection with the voting there has existed some doubt with regard to the small tickets, and in consequence a delegate from each candidate’s committee met and discussed the subject. The result is that the executive committee adopted the followinig method, which should be thoroughly understood by all those selling tickets: —Each secretary of sub-com-mittee will now number each ticket and block with his candidate’s number before he hands it out for sale. The small tickets must be torn off and given to the purchaser, and the purchaser must insist on receiving the same and may retain or destroy them at will. The ballot boxes distributed around the shops .will be collected and one ballot box only will be in the secretary’s office. The sub-committee secretary, on returning the blocks and cash, will get a receipt, and will then place the blocks in the ballot box, and the candidates will receive 120 votes for each block. The returning officer will clear the box each morning, and file the votes, so that the bonus of 100 free votes still holds good as previously. This system is more simple and easily understood by the sellers. It rests with each secretary to see that all books sent out are numbered in order to make this system a success. Books are procurable only from the secretary of each candidate’s committee. A euchre party In aid of the Friendly Societies’ candidate (Miss Alice Cramer, lied, White and Blue), will be held in the Foresters’ Hall on Wednesday, at 7.45 p.m. Prizes will be awarded winners.

The, minstrel troupe which paraded Broadway on Saturday night amused the public for a couple of hours, and incidentally managed to extract from the pockets of the sympathetic the sum of £2 15s, which will be devoted to furthering the candidature of Mrs George Smith (Royal blue and white), the select of the Fire Brigade. A reminder is given of the special meeting of members of the Egmont Club for Tuesday evening to consider the question of supporting a candidate for the contest, A meeting in support of the Country Girl will be held at Messrs Jackson’s office to-night at 8 o’clock. THE HAWERA CONTEST. The voting boxes were cleared for the first time on Friday afternoon, when it was found that 11.577 votes had been recorded. The amount rcceivd in cash was £96 9s Gd. The position of the candidates is at present as follows: No. 2 Candidate (Misa Russell) 1 No. 5 Candidate (Miss Clareburt). 2 No. 8 Candidate (Mrs Hikaka) 8 No. 1 Candidate (Mrs J. Quin) ... 4 No. 3 Candidate (Mr M. J. Goodson) ... ... ... 5

No. 4 Candidate (Mrs A. Coulson) 6 No. 7 Candidate (Miss E. Hogg) 7 PNo. 6 Candidate (Miss N. Douglas) 8

The cash prize of £1 has been paid to Miss Russell.

It is reported (states the Star) that the committees of some of the candidates are with-holding votes, which will he put in later, and these may considerably alter the position of the candidates.

Twenty informal tickets have been recorded to date, the majority of these not being filled in with the required candidate’s number. Voters should hear in mind that tickets with changed or altered numbers may he liable to he classed as informal. Official counts will now take place at 4 p.m. each Tuesday and Friday until August 4, and from August 4 to August 8, the returns will he made known daily.