The Masterton School Election.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2881, 24 April 1888, Page 2

The Masterton School Election.

The election of a School Committee for Masterton, at the Theatre Royal last evening, was contrary to the expectations of many, about the closest of the close contests which have yet occurred ill this town. It was thought that the retirement of Messrs Boddington, Lowes, and Payton would give a decisive advantage to the opposite party,and the latter strained every nerve to take the opportunity apparently open. Each side put up four candidates, the fourth man being needed to carry the chairmanship, and each side placed three of its men. Ad outsider from Kurupuni, Mr Daniels, carried off the seventh seat with a brilliant crop of plumpers, and as his sympathies were with the Feist party he gave in his adhesion to

that side which to all practical intents and purposes won the battle, The public meeting was admirably arranged, and the votes of our two hundred electors were taken accordingly andrapidly without the slightest hitch, The contest was fought out fairly and good humoredly on both sides and the results, the return of Mr Feist as Chairman and a fairly representative Committee, give general satisfaction. Elections of this character are a credit to the town and tend to secure an efficient administration of local institutions. We trust on Thursday next to have another election for the Town Lands Trust conducted in a similar spirit, and with a similar result. Taking the number of voters, instead of the number of votes, as an index of the election, it will be found that the Feist party had a decided advantage. The voters list runs as follows E. McEven, 91; Edwin Feist, 7G; E. M. Galloway, 70 ; A. W. Benall, 70; A. W. Hogg, 59; W. Cullen, 57; W. Prangnell, 39; C. E. Daniell, 34 : F, W. Temple, 27.