ELECTION PETITION.
THE LYTTELTON SEAT. Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, March 12. After evidence had been given in connection with the election petition concerning the Lyttelton seat, Mr Donnelly said tho disputed votes of a hospital nurse and a school teacher came within the enabling provisions defined in the Court’s judgment in the Westland case in regard to an elector who periodically returned to his home. Mr-Justice Ostler: There might be a distinction between a person’- who goes out to work and a student. Mr O’Regan pointed out that the rules of the hospital said a nurse must reside on the premises.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 87, 12 March 1926, Page 8
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101ELECTION PETITION. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 87, 12 March 1926, Page 8
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