VOTING FOR IDIOTS.
SCOTCH GIRL’S PROTEST. OBJECTS TO ENFRANCHISEMENT, ACCEPTS MAGISTRATE’S ADVICE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) (Reoelved Jan. 9, 12.20 p.m-) LONDON, Jan. 8. One modern girl’s viewpoint of Mr Stanley Baldwin’s enfranchisement Act led her to a Glasgow Court, charged with not filling In her registration form. Miss Peggy Boneman, the girl in question, said: “If I fill in the form I will have to vote for some * Idiot who wants to loaf.” The Magistrate advised her to register in order to vote for the least Idlotlo candidate, and she reluctantly agreed to do so.
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17605, 9 January 1929, Page 7
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