THE ELECTIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 308, 29 December 1914, Page 6

THE ELECTIONS.

THE HAWKE’S BAY SEAT.

MAGISTERIAL RE-COUNT.

Per Press Association

Hastings, December 29

The result of the magisterial recount is as telegraphed last night. In the Course of his finding Mr McCar. thy says-u-“ And T hereby certify that, at the scrutiny of the marked rolls used by several deputy returning officers acting at forty-three booths for the said election, in respect of forty-seven electoral numbers appearing on such rolls, there appears from the comparison thereof that two voting papers have been issued ip respect of each one of the forty-seven, electoral numbers; and I do further certify that at the said election peisons would seem to have voted under declarations made pursuant to section 18 of the Attending Electoral Act of 1914; and that only ninetysQveu persons voted unoer declarations made and only eightyffive of such persons can be traced who have been cy any roll. And whereas the insult of the before-mentioned recqnht above recorded differs from the return of the returning officer which I find to he incorrect, I do therefore order and direct' that the said returning officer make an amended return notifying, the before-mentioned results of such recount.”

The magistrate also directed that Mr Campbell’s £2O deposit be r Cr. turned to him. It is necessary to point out that the forty-seven dual votes mentioned in the finding are not the fortyrseven votes declared by the magistrate to be informal ,and which 'increases the number of inforjnal votes declared by the returning officer in his official declaration Horn 53 to 100. The. number is merely a coincidence. The dual voting and the apparently false declaration voting are matters ,fdr the Election Court to dedl with, and not till then will it be .definitely known who is member for Hawkes Bay.