A VACANT SEAT
ANOTHER BY-ELECTION The death of Mr R. Coulter, M.P. for Raglan, was the sixteenth that has occurred among sitting members of Parliament since September, 1939, when the war began. Five of tlie deaths were on active service. Byelections were not held in all cases, an Act being passed in 1943 to cancel by-elections to fill three vacancies, this step being taken because of the approach of the general election in that. year.
There will be keen interest in the by-election to fill the Raglan seat, for apart from the fact, that at the general election in 1943 Mr Coulter’s majority was 90 in a four-cornered contest, it is a mixed farming and mining electorate.
The first stop in filling the vacancy caused by Mr Coulter’s death will 1)6 a. formal notification by the Registrar of Deaths to Mr Speaker of Mr Coulter’s demise, and Mr Speaker will then cause a. notice of the vacancy to be published in the Gazette. This will bo followed by the issuing of a. writ, to fill the vacancy, and it will probably be two or three weeks before that stage is reached.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 74, 8 January 1946, Page 5
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191A VACANT SEAT Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 74, 8 January 1946, Page 5
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