DUAL VOTING CHARGE
GENERAL ELECTIONS LABOURER FOR TRIAL (Pur Truss Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. Arising out of his conduct on the day of the general Parliamentary elections, a New Plymouth elector, Percy Allen, a labourer, appeared in (he Police Court to-day charged with dual Voting. He pleaded not guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. The accused, in a statement to the police, said he was drinking heavily all day previous to the election and again on the morning of election day and had had no recollection of voting twice, cr whether he had voted at all. The rest of the day was a blank to him. The returning officer gave evidence that votes in Allen’s name were recorded at two booths and this evidence was supported by that of the polling clerics.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19808, 9 December 1938, Page 7
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137DUAL VOTING CHARGE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19808, 9 December 1938, Page 7
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