ELECTION FINALE.
BALLOT PAPERS DESTROYED. (special' to "tee press.") WELLINGTON, June 16. Yesterday, at tho Wellington municipal destructor, o tons 3 cwt of ballot papers from the last General Election of members of the House of Representatives were consigned to the flames in the presence of the Clerk of tho House and the Clerk of Writs. There is a clause in the Legislature Act providing that the ballot papers shall bo so destroyed. Amongst those ballot ' papers the names of William Ferguson Alassey and William Herbert Herrios appeared for the last time. Other names of well-known members of the House of Representatives who were defeated at the last General Election were those of Sir Joseph Ward, who was again defeated at the Tauranga by-election, tho Hon. E. P. Lee, Sir Frederick Lang, and Mr A. t>. Malcolm. None of these names, except that of Sir Joseph Ward, is likely to appear on the ballot papers of tho next General Election. It took six men three and a-half hours to shovel tho ballot papers into the destructor.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18410, 17 June 1925, Page 8
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176ELECTION FINALE. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18410, 17 June 1925, Page 8
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