TO CORRESPONDENTS.
; Helensville writes :•', Please .inform me, through your paper: -1. If a ron-ratepayer is entitled tp.sit as' a Licensing Commlsloner ? 2. Is: a t oreignor. not naturalised, entitled to ' alt" as a Commissioner?" !li In the Auckland lleirisln'g district, it has been held ■ that only those who an oh' the ratepayers , roll for the 'district can be eloctel a niemberof the Licensing 2. A' frel born subject'■ of a foreign power, not naturalise!, cannot be put upon the electoral roll for the detrict to vote for the return of a member of the. Howe of Representatives, but as ■to that circumstance lieing a disqualification to bis becoming a payer of lical rates, in' the event of his •becoming an owner of freehold property or the leaseholder of premises in vhich-he resides; we have grave 'misgivings. The quation opens up an-important phase of the liberalisiig policy which has. been going ■on in British colonies jor many years past.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6424, 20 June 1882, Page 4
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