TO UNSEAT MAYOR.
STRATFORD ATTEMPT. I IRREGULARITIES ALLEGED. GROUNDS OP PETITION. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) STRATFORD, this day. A petition has been lodged by 12 electors of Stratford borough asking that the recent Mayoral election be declared void, and the Mayor, Mr. J. W. McMillan, declared not elected. The grounds alleged are that a voting paper is missing; that unauthorised people were present at the polling place after the declaration of the poll; that a voting paper was issued without a roll number being inserted in the counterfoil; and that an alleged statement by Mr. McMillan that he would reduce the Mayoral honorarium and recommend that saving, £25, be given to the unemplo3'ed, was illegal and improper. Objection is also taken to a circular issued by the secretary of Mr. McMillan's committee, and it is further alleged that the election of Mr. McMillan by lot was not in accordance with the Act.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 116, 19 May 1933, Page 8
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