ELECTION “TICKETS”
Municipal Conference
Remit
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, March 5.
By a majority of 64 votes to 32, the Municipal Association Conference carried a remit that .seclion 44 (B) of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 192 a (which makes it an offence to print, distribute or deliver on the day of polling or during the preceding three days an imitation of a voting paper, together with directions as to the method of voting), should be amended to include election “tickets.” The sooner party politics arc eliminated from local body elections the better it will be for local body administration,” declared Mr. H. Firth (Petone). Opposition to the remit came from representatives of Christchurch, Auckland and Wellington. Mr. T. C. A. Hislop (Wellington) urged that in city elections so many nominations were received Hurt it was impossible for a voter to remember the names of all for whom he wished to vote. It was pointed out by the president, Mr. T. Jordan (Masterton), that, the remit, was brought: forward by the town clerks and that it could not therefore be regarded as puerile.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 137, 6 March 1941, Page 9
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184ELECTION “TICKETS” Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 137, 6 March 1941, Page 9
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