NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.
" Waybaek."—Your letter was evidently written befoie yon had dii opportunity of reading the explanatory statement in our issue of October 29. " Candidate."—Nominations need not bo lodged in depislicate. They must be made in tho form prescribed in the first schedule of "The Local Elections Act, 1894,"
"W. J. M."—No syllabus has been issued yof. An. appliea-tion to Mr .T. W. Joynt, Tcgstnir of tho New Zealand University, Wei'lin.gicn, will elicit all the information thai is available.. "Valid."—The law provides that "no poll shall be valid in auv district, in which no electoral poll is tatan unless at least one-half of the total number of doctors on the roll of Iho district shall have recorded their votes." It has boon held by Mr Justice Demiiston that the returning officer shsuhl not co,»nt as votes what the law requires him to treat as informal, and, therefore, ineffective.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 14359, 31 October 1908, Page 8
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