REFERENDUM BILL
STRINGENT PROVISIONS OF FEDERAL MEASURE. MELBOURNE, July 19. A Bill to amend the Referendum Act has been introduced in the House of Representatives. It provides for the abolition of postal voting. Organisations spending money in support of opposition to any law submitted to the referendum must make a return of such expenditure. Similarly newspapers must supply re. turns of advertisements and articles intended or calculated to affect the result of a referendum, with tho payments received therefor. Penalties for untrue returns, or failure to make them, range from £SO to £SOO, with an alternative.of six months’ imprisonment. All articles commenting on the issues involved must be signed. For supplying material inducements to influence votes' or for giving or receiving bribes, a penalty of £2OO is fixed, with the alternative of a year’s imprisonment. HOUSE ADJOURNS. (Received July 20, 0.55 a.m.) MELBOURNE, July 19. The House and Senate have not finished their debates on the Trades Marks and Navigation (Bills, and have adjourned till Tuesday!
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8178, 20 July 1912, Page 5
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166REFERENDUM BILL New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8178, 20 July 1912, Page 5
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