TAUMARUNUI ELECTION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 19 May 1915, Page 4

TAUMARUNUI ELECTION.

CONSEQUENCES OF RECENT PROi CEEDINGS. -

BX TFIEG&AFH—PiiBBS ASSOCIATION T£ KUITI,.May 18. A resolution was pa&sed at a meeting of the Liberal-Labor League-' and representatives from neighborine. branches, and forwarded to Mr Massev [suggesting the advisability of supeVsedmg Mr Schramm, Registrar of Elec- | tors in the iaumarunui electorate oa i the ground that a more experienced offacer is required. Several points regarding Mr Schramm's methods of compiling the roil arc alleged; also the admission m the election court ease that he went to New Plymouth for the purpose of being consulted regarding the petition case by Mr A. H. John^ stone solicitor for the petitioner, and he had his expenses paid by Mr Johnstone. Also that Mr Schramm display, ed bias during the hearing of the election petition. James Burns Young, charged with a breach of the Electoral Act, in Stestlng his signature on an enrolment claim without having seen it signed, pleaded guilty. He was fined £20 and costs, m default a mouth's imprisonment. ■ *