PLURAL VOTING
ABOLITION THIS SESSION
STATEMENT BY ME 'SAVAGE
A report that plural voting in municipal elections was to be abolished by legislation this session lias been eontinned by the Prime Minister, the IH. lion. M. ,). Savage. “That, provision was slipped through without anybody noticing it.—and it will be slipped out again this session, said Mr. Savage.
The Prime Minister indicated that the measure would be on Hie lines of the bill introduced by the Hon. B. Semple, ns a private member, last year. The bill consisted of only one clause and it. provided for the repeal of section 15 of the Local Elections and Polls Amendment Act, 1926. That, section provides for the exercise of votes by corporate bodies, unincorporated societies and firms and partnerships. The Prime .Minister said there was no objection to
n person who owned property being entitled' to vote, so long as that person could vote only once, but power for a person to exorcise 'half-a-dozen or even more votes would definitely be abolished this session.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19138, 6 October 1936, Page 3
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