VOTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1938, Page 6

VOTING

riccarton :•Ases in hands . ‘ POLICE. " COUNT DELAYED. 7 egraph—Press Association.) .• ■’.RISTCHURCH, This Day. ..twenty cases of apparent du- • ' ■ voting are holding up the ' ’ aunt in the Riccarton election st, in which Mr T. H. Langford .dour) has a lead of 38 votes over -ie sitting National member, Mr H. S. S. Kyle. The Returning Officer said this morning that he could not start his final count until each case of apparent duplication had been cleared tip. He added that three cases had been put in the hands of the police. As for the eight hundred odd absentee and postal votes, no indication could be gained as to which candidate had secured the bulk of them, as the law stipulated that before these outstanding papers could be tallied up, the recount of votes already announced had to- be completed. Interest has been heightened in the Christchurch North electorate, for it is understood that two errors have been discovered in the recount which have added fifty votes to the total of the Labour candidate, Mr R. M. McFarlane, who on the first count was 342 votes behind the sitting National member, Mr S. G. Holland.