THE ELECTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3042, 12 November 1908, Page 4

THE ELECTIONS.

Mr John Hunter will deliver an address at Hastwells this evening, and at Eketahuna to-morrow evening. Weather permitting, Mr John Hunter will address an open-air meeting from the Age balcony on Saturday evening next.

The No-License campaign is quite overshadowing electoral matters in Dunedin. At Tuesday night's meetings both parties had the proceedings disturbed by the free distribution of pepper. The No-License people offer a substantial reward for the conviction of the offender at their gathering.

Mr John Hunter's Masterton Committee has been working hard throughout Masterton and suburbs during the past week. Jt is quite safe to anticipate that Mr Hunter will poll quite as well as his opponent in Masterton, his straightforward statement on the No-License question having won him a great number of supporters who are in favour of that reform.

The information published last week, obtained from the Labour Department, regarding the holiday for factories and shops on Election Day, is, we are now informed, not. quite correct as far as shops are concerned. As the matter is somewhat confused as between the Shops and Offices Act and the Legislature Act, the Department has obtained legal advice, which is to the effect that it is compulsory for all shops that require to close in the ordinary way on Wednesday afternoon to close on Tuesday afternoon (Election Day) instead. Shopkeepers need not, of course, close on the Wednesday, and the same applies to those who usually close on Saturday. As previously stated, fac-tory-owners need not close or give the half-holiday, but are required to give up to an hour's leave in order that their employees may have an opportunity to vote.—"New Zealand Times."