Crowds show up at Gore

The prospects of fine weather for the second day of the Gore Show were not at all bright. Cold showers fell at intervals during the night, and early yesterday morning the sky was covered with threatening clouds. As the day advanced, however, the clouds gave way to bright sunshine, which prevailed for the rest of the day, making the conditions ideal for spectators at the show. By midday there was a fairly large crowd on the ground, and for a few hours after that a steady stream of visitors arrived, the attendance being apparently well up to the average. The hunting and other competitions formed the chief attraction during the afternoon, and in those the spectators displayed a very keen interest.

Polling day today

Today is the day of the triennial dominion parliamentary elections. With this is associated the vote on the question of National Prohibition of the Liquor Traffic, State Purchase and Control of the Traffic, or its Continuance under the present system. The voting hours in the city electorates are from 9am to 7pm, and in the country electorates from 9am to 6pm. Electors are strongly urged to vote early in the day as far as is possible, thus consulting their own convenience at the booths, and assisting to spread the work of the returning officers and assistants evenly over the day. It is foolish on the part of an elector to think of not voting at all because he does not feel that any candidate possesses the qualifications which he considers desirable in a member of Parliament. The sane and practical course to adopt is for the elector to vote for the candidate for whom he has the less dislike. If, instead of doing this, he refrains from voting at all, he is in effect supporting the candidate for whom he has the greater dislike.

Don’t call us

We shall he greatly obliged if the pubic will refrain from requesting information from us by telephone this evening respecting the results of the polls throughout the dominion. On general election night the work of the office is carried on under high pressure, and the interruption that is involved in constant attention to calls on the telephone and in supplying information, which we do our best to furnish through the medium of the displays in the street, is so serious that we find ourselves compelled to request that we may be spared it. For the same reason we have to announce that our office will be open this evening only to persons who may have business to transact in it. Provision has been made whereby candidates will, after the declaration of the polls, be enabled to address the public in front of the Otago Daily Times building.

Evansdale the place to be

Annual picnics are now beginning to take place, and the indications are that Evansdale is to be the popular resort this year. About 150 pupils of the King Edward Technical College visited there yesterday, about 70 from Christian Brothers will leave for the same place this morning, and about 150 from St  Hilda's College will visit there on Saturday. The Dunedin Training College picnic, at which about 170 students will be present, is to be held at Taieri Mouth tomorrow. — ODT, 7.12.1922

Compiled by Peter Dowden