PARLIAMENTARY VACANCY
CURIOUS ENGLICH PRACTICE. Praw AsMofa'don—By T-ilesraph—Covyrifbt LONDON, April 1. (Received April 1, at 8 p.m.) The Daily Express says that Mr George Lloyd Davies, an independent pacifist member of the House of Commons, has applied for the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds owing to his discovery of an error of £2 in iris election expenses, which was not due to his own fault. The Government will probably lose the seat at the by-election.—A. and N.Z. Cable. No member of the House of Commons can resign his seat: he must apply for some office of profit under the Crown, and so vacate his seat under the Act of Settlement, and the usual practice is to apply for the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, or of the Manor of Poynings, or Northstead, or the Eischeatorship of Munster, whereupon the seat is declared vacant and a writ issued.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19136, 2 April 1924, Page 7
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