ELECTORAL REFORM.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 14, 17 January 1931, Page 9

ELECTORAL REFORM.

INNOVATION IN ENGLAND.

(Received 9.30 a.m.)

LONDON, January 16,

The adoption of preferential voting exactly similar to the Australian system, the abolition of double electorates, University seats,, and plural voting, except in the city of London 5 the restiiction of the use of vehicles, and the reduction of election expenses, are among the chief points in the Government's new amending Electoral Reform Bill.

THIEF IN HIDING.

STOLE £400 IN MELBOURNE.

MELBOURNE, January 16,

A thief hid in a storeroom on the premises of Messrs. James Marsh and Sons, North Melbourne. He waited until the girl cashier had gone to luncheon and then stole a sum of £400. _ The intruder escaped by lowering -himself down a rope from the second storey to the street, where a motor car was awaiting him.

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