DISCHARGED SOLDIERS' VOTES
The Acting-Prime Minister (Sir James Allen) states that Cabinet considered a complaint made by certain returned soldiers in connection with the licensing poll. These men had been discharged from the Expeditionary Force, and they had failed subsequently to get their names placed on tho roll. Under the law, therefore, they could not vote at the licensing poll, The Government would have liked to help these men to secure their .voting'privilege, but it could not do anything for them. They had missed their opportunity to enrol in the ordinary way, and as they were discharged they could not be treated as sol■liers.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 65, 19 March 1919, Page 8
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104DISCHARGED SOLDIERS' VOTES Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 65, 19 March 1919, Page 8
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