AN AMERICAN SUBJECT.
••"'•': ■ (IVr Pre'9B. As^ocMOtion.) ', ' ' ' ; ' : : AUCKLAND/ tlii's daV. '■-_ At a sitting of the Electoral Court, before Mr Kettle. S.M., this morning a point of objection Was la.ken to -the name of Mrs L. E. Hume remaining .on the roll, on the ground that having married an American citizen, who had not been naturalised as a British subject, she had forfeited her national status and could not vote. She had lived ,m New Zealand for 4vjj years, ai)d was previously on the | roll at' Hamilton. .Albert- Hfime, ' her i husband deposed that he travelled pretty well all the. world on behalf of a firm, whose headquarters were, at . Chicago. The Magistrate expressed the wish that the case., had, been taken- to^the Fnll Court to get 'an authoritative ruling; It was of some importance and great interest. By section 10 of the English/ Naturalisation. Act a. . married, -, woman was deemed to be a subject of the country of which her huband was for the time being a subject. Mrs Hume had lost her status as a British subject when she -married an American citizen. The Magistrate instructed that Mrs Hume's name-ho're-moved from the roll.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12616, 20 November 1911, Page 5
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193AN AMERICAN SUBJECT. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12616, 20 November 1911, Page 5
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