ELECTORAL REGISTRATION.
WITNESSING OF SIGNATURES. PROSECUTIONS IN WELLINGTON. WELLINGTON, September 14. It is regarded as a serious offence for anyone to sign an electoral form for another person, or to witness a signature without seeing it made by the person to whom it belonged. Alexander Houston was prosecuted for the first offence at Wellington to-day, and Woolf Phillips for the second. Houston was at his brother John’s place, and made out two applications foy registration, one for Jolm and the other for John’s wife. Next day John took both forms to Phillips’s, and he witnessed them. The prosecution admitted that there was no fraudulent intent, but the parties had simply gone the wrong way about the matter. Such offences were serious, however, particularly notv, in view of the forthcoming elections. Fines of 10s were imposed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3888, 18 September 1928, Page 22
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135ELECTORAL REGISTRATION. Otago Witness, Issue 3888, 18 September 1928, Page 22
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