ELECTION EXPENSES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 8 June 1912, Page 5

ELECTION EXPENSES.

•UNUSUAL 'CASE

The Dominion's correspondent, in telegraphing from Foxton. on the 6th inst., says that a judgment bearing upon Parliamentary candidates' election advertising expenses was delivered on Wednesday '^n the Magistrate's Court by Mr A. T). -Thomson, S.M. The case was one m wMch the Manawatu Herald sued C. A. "Monekton, late candidate for the Otaki electorate, for the sum of £24 os, for advertising in connection with the late election. The Herald was non-suited, tan the grounds (in accordance with section 175 of the Legislature Act, 1908) that no action for the recovery of the sum in a competent Court was instituted within 90 days of the election. Plaintiff had sent in a claim for the amount -within 30 days, but the account was disputed, owing to an alleged overcharge, and the matter was not proceeded with until too late.

In giving judgment, the Magistrate stated that the case appeared to be the first of its kind in New Zealand, and that, in England, under the Corrupt and Illegal Practices Act, 1883, it was required that claims should be sent in within 14 days, and paid within 28 days. The Magistrate ordered each party to pay his own costs.