China is spending ,£10,000,000 on the re- ' habilitation of her army and. navy. ] A curious circumstance marked the ] election of parish councillors at Booking, Essex. In order to count more accurately < the number of votes for each candidate, | tho chairman of tho parish meeting asked . the voters to stand up, and in this way [ tho numbers were counted. Before tho meeting concluded, however, someone discovered that the election was not in legal order, as fhe Act provides that the mode of voting on such occasions shall be by £ show of hands. Consequently the candi- ° dates were again nominated and elected I in the prescribed way, the results of tho voting being exactly the same-
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 843, 15 June 1910, Page 6
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