COURTS AND OFFENCES.
ELECTORAL FORMS NOT Pl 5 0 PER 1 A WIT N ESSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.; WELLINGTON, Sept. 14. It is regarded: as a serious offence lor anyone to sign an electoral form I lor another person, or to witness a sig-] nature without seeing it made by the pen-oil to whom it be-.ongs. Alexander Houston was' prosecuted for a. first offence' to-day and Woolf '.li.'.ips for a second. Houston- was at his brother John’s place, and made out two applications; lor registration, on© for John the other for John’s wife. Next chrv John took both forms- to Phillips and he witnessed them. The piosecuti-on admitted that there was no fraudulent intent but. the parI ids had simply gone the wrong way about the matter. Such offences- were serious, however, particularly now in 1 view of the forthcoming election’s'. Filies of lun sibilHues were- imposed.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 15 September 1928, Page 7
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