DESTRUCTION OF BALLOT PAPERS.
(special to "the fbes's.") WELLINGTON,'ApriI 18. , New Zealand has now seen the last of the ballot papers used in the general election of 1919. They went up in smoke a few days ago at the city destructor. The law provides that the ballot paper* suaU be kept in safe custody ioi- a certain period., alter wiucn tuey snail be destroyed' by are. Eeceutjy, "_u r j. aislop, cler* oi the writs, and Mr E. \V. Jxane, clerk of the House of Itepresentatives, witnessed the deed. Two motor lorries and five men were requisitioned for the. work, for the ballot papers weighed just under six tons. The bundles had to be opened out before they could be put into the furnaces, and be burned expeditiously. The. operation took nearly two hours. The papers had been kept in the fire-proof record-room of the House of Representatives till the time for their destruction arrived.
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17742, 19 April 1923, Page 8
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