THE ELECTION LAW

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9025, 3 November 1925, Page 4

THE ELECTION LAW

CLAIM COl.l £SOOO 03LMMiJ£s. Yesterday two informal ions Ivere sworn under the Legislature- Act, ou§ against Henry Hasting Seabrook president of the Roskill branch of Protestant Political Association. ■ charge sets out:— “That on or about the 30tli day October, 1925. in the Roskill electorate Auckland, the detendant, between the, issue*of the writ and the dose of tk £ poll, did issue a circular headed. ‘HaIJ Skelton and the Roskill Klcct >rs,’ ail( j did publish, <>v cause r„ | H -, lished or exposed, the printed document*, aforesaid, containing dofanni;- >rv statemeins, being grossly false ami untnio calculated to influence the votes 0 f electors, and concerning the candidate Alfred Hall-Skclton. in breach of the Legislature Act. 1908.’’ A similar information was laid against the same party for alleged publishing of another document allegedly bearing his signature as president of the Roskill branch of the Protestant Political Association. The penalty set out under the section of the Act for an offence of the nature alleged is a fine of .£SO or three months’ imprisonment. A writ is being issued for 05000 damages in connection with the alleged defamatory statements contained in tho subject matter of the circular referred to, against both the signatories and the printers of the said document.— Auckland Star.