GENERAL ELECTION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19814, 4 December 1919, Page 8

GENERAL ELECTION.

MR LESTER’S XOMDTATIOX. Mr W. T. Lester, Mayor of Lyttelton, was nominated to-day for the .Lyttelton electorate by Messrs Jv. Henderson, T. F. Walklin and George Rutherford (Lyttelton), and Mr 'William Partridge (.Sumner;. “ DON’T ” OR BE FINED. SOME ELECTION WARNINGS. . The legislature Act, 1908, and .its 1911 amendments, contain a pretty formidable list of “i)on’ts !1 in the way of warnings to candidates, candidates’ agents, and electors, about the tilings they must not do at election time. One interesting section, respecting whnm, . some inquiries have already been maue, relates to what is termed “influencing electors.''' This clause says; “is very person is liable, to a. fine not. exceeding £:2O ivho at an election in any way interferes with any elector, either in the polling booth or on his way to it. with the intention of influencing him or advising him as to his vote; or who prints or addresses to any person on the day of the poll, or at any’’time during the throe days immediately preceding the poll, anything being or*purporting to be any imitation of any ballot paper to bo used at life noil, and having on it the names of the candidate?, together with any direction or indication as to how any person should vote; or in any way containing any such direction or indication, or having on it any matter likely to influence any vote; or during the hours in which the poll is being taken makes nay public demonstration having reference to the poll by means of moving figures, effigies. signboards, or in any like manner." Another clause, which was eviuemlv iraiued with the purpose of discouraging vitriolit; and unfounded remark’s and publications about opposing candidates declares that “every person r; liable to a fine not exceeding £.50 or to imprisonment lor any period nut. exceeding three months who at any time between the issuo of'the writ am! the close of ihe pill publishes or exposes or causes to bo published or exposed to public view any document or writing or printed matter containing any untrue statement defamatory to any candidate and calculated to influence the vote of any elector. - '' MR Vim'S XOMIXATIOX. Mr George ’Withy, Liberal candidate ■for Hicearieii, lias been nominated by Messrs F. C. Gerard, W. S. Sugloy. and Georgy Bailey, Mr Witty addressed, a- meeting -of’ Riecarton. electors in the Aylesbury Schoolroom on Wednesday night. Mr Harwood, chairman of die School Committee, presided. There was a good attendance. The candidate wits accorded a good hearing. Ho answered several questions on the cost of living, andwas accorded a hearty vote of thanks. I j I I