MUNICIPAL POLL UPSET

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 14 June 1935, Page 5

MUNICIPAL POLL UPSET

STATUTORY HOLIDAY VOfE NEW EJECTION DESIRED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, June 18. “I determine that the irregularities so materially affected the residt of the poll that the poll is void,” says the written judgment in which Mr J. Miller, S.M., in the Hastings Magistrate's Court to-day announced his decision in respect of a petition to upset the poll on the half-holiday question at Waipukurau on May 8. The poll showed a, majority of seven votes in favour of Wednesday. “The result of my finding is that so many votes, those set out under the heading of bodies corporate, etc., have been rendered nugatory,” lie said, “that it would lift unfair if tlie.se, important bodies with so infioh at :

stake aro denied votes. A fresh pol is therefore desirable.” One of the "rounds of the petition eoncerned the provision enabling voters whose names have, been inadvertently omitted from the roll after making a declaration. ‘‘The returning officer refused to allow the scrutineers to see the declarations on the ground that it would infringe the secrecy of the ballot,’’ Mr Miller - said “I am of the opinion that the Scrutineers were entitled to inspect dd-

ela rat ions referring to two votes thus record pel.” His Worship said he was J obliged to disallow them. j The judgment wont on to refer to I the returning officer’s action in waiving the obligation upon electors representing corporate bodies to produce their authority and said: ‘‘lt is therefore imperative that it should he pro- j duced. If the waiving of failure to produce authority to the returning officer can be allowed it can he only in those cases where new authorities were

in existence. “The petitioners contend that the returning officer should not have allowed tenants holding a joint tenancy or a tenancy in common to voto individually as well, as in the case of one tenant voting by proxy for a fii‘m. Tt is cloa, that the agent for, say, a company, is not precluded from exercising his individual vote because he has voted on behalf of the company. That is not dual voting, for the latter vote is the company’s vote.’-

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