The Archive · 1915

The Result

The work of counting votes capably and quickly doos by the scrutineers, Messrs. W. S. Jackson and H. A. J. Mackray, and at 5.20 the result was made known. Mr, C Pearce was returned at the top of the poll, and all the British didates, with the American and Rus sian representatives, were Count, Jezierski obtained the ninth place by only a small majority over the Japanese candidate, and the German candidate was at the bottom of the poll, a considerable number of votes in arrear. The official return reads as follow:

E.C. Pearce 1,082 I. Ezra. os 987

A. 8. P. White-Cooper..... 925 L. Merriman 900

H.C. Gulland 0... 896

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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