QUESTION OF CITIZENSHIP.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 82, 20 November 1911, Page 6

QUESTION OF CITIZENSHIP.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, November 20. At a sitting of the Electoral Court before Mr Kettle, S.M., this morning pointed objection was taken to Mrs L. E, Humes’s remaining on the roll on the ground that by having married an American citizen who had not been naturalised as a British subject siic had forfeited her national status and could not vote. She had lived in New Zealand for U years and was previously on the roll at Hamilton. Albert Humes, her husband, said he had travelled pretty well all over the world on behalf of a firm whose headquarters were in Chicago. The Magistrate expressed a wish that the case had been taken to the Full Court to get an authoritative lading. It is of some importance and of great interest. By section 10 of the English Election Act a married woman is deemed to ho a subject ot the State of which her husband for the time being is a subject. Mrs Humes lost her status as a British subject when she married an American citizen. The Magistrate instructed that Mrs Humes’s name be removed from the roll.

The Government Meteorologist telegraphed tliis afternoon:—Variable westerly ■ strong winds to gale; at times weather probably cool, and with changeable tendency; glass rise slowly but unsteady.