TOWN'S STRANGE PLIGHT.
REFUSAL TO ELECT MAYOR. NO PROVISION FOR MARRIAGES. Thanks to its refusal to elect a Mayor and councillors, the little town of Tourrettes, France, is in a strange plight. It has a population of nearly 600, but apparently not one of its citizens is anxious for municipal honours. They will not even vote. Some time ago the Mayor and the municipal council resigned and the Prefect ordered a new election. But not a single voter went to the poll.
Electors and candidates alike seem to have declared a civic strike. As far as the ordinary administration of the place is concerned, things go on much as usual, for its inliabitants have come to the conclusion that they get along quite well without either a Mayor or a council. The Prefect is not satisfied with this state of affairs, because until the town has elected a Mayor, no one may get married there, no births can be regis tered, and those who die cannot ho legally dead. TJntil this curious "strike" is ended, citizens of Tourrettes will have to bo horn, married, or die elsewhere if they wish their family papers to be in order.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21132, 15 March 1932, Page 10
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197TOWN'S STRANGE PLIGHT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21132, 15 March 1932, Page 10
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