VOTERS' PROBLEM.
OBSERVING SABBATH.
JEWS AND ADVENTISTS.
POSTAL BALLOT SUGGESTED. illy Trlrßrnph.— Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. Members of the Seventh Day Adventist and Jewish Churches will have only 19 minutes in which to record their votes on polling day. October 15. This is because both Churches observe their Sabbath from -niiKet on Kriday until sunset on Saturday, which on October 15 occurs at (>.41 p.m. Polling booths will close at 7 p.m. Neither Church permits its members to write on the Sabbath unless for special reasons, which do not include the recording of vnt.es. Persons would not, therefore, be able to record their votes until the close of the Sabbath.
It is believed that members of the >e\ cnt h Day Adventist Church will be able to record tiietr votes during the limited time at their disposal, as they will lie able to go to the booths immediately the Sabbath ends. Their afternoon service on Saturday finishes about p.m. or 4 p.m.
The .lewish service, however, docs not conclude until shortly after sunset. Special provision may be made to permit .lews to exercise their votes and it is possible that this will be by way of postal voting.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 24
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198VOTERS' PROBLEM. Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 220, 17 September 1938, Page 24
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