NO WILFUL INTENT.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 819, 16 November 1905, Page 24

NO WILFUL INTENT.

At the Pukekohe S.M. Court, one day last week, Mr James Dixon- Ward, the well-known anti-prohibition lecturer, made his bow* to Mr H. W. Northcroft, S.M. Mr Ward was charged with having committed a breach of the Electoral Act by making a claim for enrolment before he had been twelve months in the colony. In the evidence it was stated that on July 6 Mr Ward had signed an enrolment form, and was placed upon the Franklin roll, and afterwards transferred to Auckland. He then discovered he was not qualified, and wrote to the Registrars at Auckland and Franklin explaining his error, and asking to have his name removed. Up to the time of the receipt of these letters the Registrars were not aware that he was. not qualified. He was now qualified to enrol. Mr Northcroft held that there was no wilful intent, and the case was dismissed.