ELECTOR FINED.
REFUSAL TO REGISTER. RELIGIOUS REASON ADVANCED. NELSON, July 19. That he could serve only one king, and that he owed allegiance to no other king but Jesus, was the extraordinary reason advanceil by a man in the Magistrate’s Court to-day for his refusal to enrol as an elector. “A lot of nonsense,” was the Magistrate’s blunt comment upon the man’s statement. The' defendant was Peter Thomson, of Fort Nelson, who was charged before Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M., that between 12th January 1926, and Ist June 1926, at Nelson, being a person qualified to be registered as an elector for the electoral district of Nelson, he did fail for four months after the commencement of the Legislature Act, .1924, to become registered. The information was laid by the Registrar of electors. The defendant was fined five shillings and costs.
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Grey River Argus, 20 July 1926, Page 2
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141ELECTOR FINED. Grey River Argus, 20 July 1926, Page 2
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