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ELECTORS' OBLIGATION “COULD ONLY SERVE JESUS.” Per Press Association. NELSON, July 19. That he could serve only one king and owed allegiance to no other king but Jesus, was the extraordinary reason advanced by a man in the Magistrate's Court to-day for his refusal £o enrol as an elector. <f A lot of nonsense,” was the magistrate’s blunt comment upon the man’s statement. The defendant was Peter Thomson, of Port Nelson, who was charged before Mr T. E. Maunsell, S.M., “that betwefen January 12th, 1926, at Nelson being a person qualified to be registered as an electir for the electoral district of Nelson he did fail for four months after the commencement of the Legislature Act, 1924, to become registered. The information was laid by the Registrar of Electors and the defendant fined 5s with costs.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12503, 20 July 1926, Page 7
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