INTERESTING CASE
ALLEGED INTERFERENCE WITH ELECTORS. [Per Press Association j AUCKLAND, May 25. Eleven were charged in the Police Court under the Local Elections and Polls Act, with having influenced electors and (b) interfered with electors in their way to the polling booth at the recent election of the Auckland City Council and Mt. Eden Borough Council, by delivering to them cards having thereon the names of candidates. The cards produced in Court bore the names of certain candidates approved by various bodies. For the defence, in the case that was taken as a test, counsel submitted that it had not been proved that the ticket was delivered to any elector except a police sergeant, who gave evidence. He also submitted that the ticket was not calculated to influence an elector since it simply bore the names of candidates approved by a certain body. It was competent for the elector to deliberately refrain frovoting for any of the candidates named thereon. Decision was reserved.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18791, 28 May 1923, Page 5
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164INTERESTING CASE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18791, 28 May 1923, Page 5
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