ELECTION APPEAL
PETITION TO UPSET. CASE IN WELLINGTON. (By Telegraph.—press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The hearing of the petition to upset the Wellington municipal election commenced before Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., to-day. The petition’s main request is that the rolls be scrutinised for the purpose of discovering how many corporate bodies voted, and that all votes cast on their 'behalf without authority be disallowed. The petition is opposed by Messrs Huggins and Duncan, 'candidates at the election, who contend that the petition Is invalid and a nullity, on the grounds that It Is not in any one of the forms prescribed, and that neither the Court nor any magistrate has the jurisdiction to entertain or otherwise deal with it. The petition, inter alia, quotes Section 30 of the Act, which it states provides that the returning officer shall select from the voting papers the vote of any person who appears to have received a voting paper at two or more polling places, and shall disallow every vote appearing to have been given by the means of voting so selected.
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Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19599, 11 June 1935, Page 6
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179ELECTION APPEAL Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19599, 11 June 1935, Page 6
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