THE ELECTIONS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 297, 14 December 1914, Page 2

THE ELECTIONS

DR. NEWMAN RETURNED.

MUNRO FOR DUNEDIN CENTRAL

Per Press Association,

Wellington, December 13

Very little additional electoral information is to hand. In Wellington East, Dr. A. K. Newman now has a lead of 89, and as there are only 22 votes outstanding, his position is unassailable.

The position in Dunedin Central is interesting. Mr Munro (Opposition) has a lead of nine votes over Mr Statham, and there are nine votes to come in—sevpn absent voters’ permits and two seamen’s rights. The Wairarapa and Patea counts are not yet complete. LOST THEIR DEPOSITS. The following candidates having failed to .poll one-fourth of the number of votes recorded for the successful candidates in the contests in which they were respectively engaged, forfeit their deposits of £lO each: — Messrs F. Lawry, Parnell; J. Furness, Raglan; G. Smith, Gisborne; H. W. Shortland, Taumarunui; R. B. Williams, Wellington South; G. Turner, Wairau; W. E. J. Maguire, Dunedin West; H. Gillen, Buller; G. S. Thomson, Chalmers. AN ELECTION CANARD.

Hamilton, December 14

Seen by a pressman to-day with •c----ferenoe to the published statement that Mr Bollard, member for Raglan, intends resigning in favor of Mr Fisher, Mr Bollard declared that he knew nothing whatever of the matter, not having been approached by the Government or anyone else. The thought never entered his head of resigning in favor of the late Minister for Marine, and even if he proposed to do so, the question then would be one for his constituents to decide.

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The fortunes of political war:— Mr J. W. Munro, who defeated Mr C. E. Statham by less than nine votes in the Dunedin Central seat, lost his deposit in the .1911 election when standing against J. A. Millar and H. D. Bedford.

In the “dry” districts, the outstanding feature of the figures was the unanimous increase in the vote for restoration. In every case hundreds represented the increase, while only in one or two cases did the prohibition figures not show substantial decreases. In Masterton and Ashburton restoration was within a. few votes of winning the day.