A WARNING.
Temperance Canvassers
in Trouble.
[per press association.]
Auckl-ND, Last night,
Two temperance canvassers were charged at the Police Court to day with signing their names as witnesses to claims for enrolment on the electoral roll without having seen the signature of the claimant written first. Frederick Mullins pleaded guilty, and was fined £2 aisd costs. The second, William Richardson, the well-known temperance lecturer, pleaded not guilty, but was convicted and fined £5 and costs, and reprimanded by the Magistrate for attempting to turn the Court into a political meeting. John Roach, who applauded Richardson, was charged with interrupting the Court and cautioned.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9823, 24 July 1900, Page 7
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104A WARNING. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 9823, 24 July 1900, Page 7
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