ELECTION PETITION
WITHDRAWAL EXPECTED TO-DAY
BAY OF ISLANDS SEAT 'Special to Daily Times} AUCKLAND. Jan. 10. It is understood that the formal withdrawal of the petition against the return and election of Mr C W Boswell as member of Parliament for the Bay of Islands is to be lodged with the Registrar _f the Supreme Court at Whangarei to-morrow when the legal recess ends. The petitioners stated that Maoris were wrongly included on the roll, that there were cases of minors voting, and that the public declaration of the number of votes received by the candidates was incorrect. The sitting of an Election Court for the hearing of the petition was originally fixed for January 17.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23704, 11 January 1939, Page 15
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116ELECTION PETITION Otago Daily Times, Issue 23704, 11 January 1939, Page 15
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