ELECTION INCIDENT
“PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION” AT WELLINGTON PROSECUTION FAILS (By Telograph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. Charles Proctor and Frederick James Whelan pleaded not guilty to a. charge, that during the hours in which the municipal polls were taking place they did make a public demonstration by means of megaphones installed in a car by which the announcement “Vote Ilislop u» Mayor,” was made. The charge was laid under the section of the Local Elections and Polls Act which forbids demonstrations concerning a poll by living figures, effigies, paintings, placards, or other means. Counsel successfully pleaded that the defendants had not made a public demonstration because the car was moving all the time and crowds could not collect about it, He also submitted that a megaphone did not conic within the section, and further that the windows were covered over, so that Proctor could not be seen, and that Whelan, tlie driver could not he joined. The Magistrate said lie bright be charged with aiding and abetting. The section would have to be amended if the legislature meant a demonstration such as this. The charges were dismissed.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 31 May 1935, Page 5
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185ELECTION INCIDENT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 31 May 1935, Page 5
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