NOT ABLE TO VOTE
WELLINGTON, Oct. 8. The hulk of defaulters would not he ahle to register for voting at the coming election hecause they had heen given their liherty without change of status, said a representative of the National Service Depart- - ment today in commenting when the matter was referred to nim- unly those who had heen discharged as permanently medically unfit or who eiected to perform military service , and were released, would he entitled to vote. It was set out in the Electoral Emergency Regulations, 1943, that the names of all persons who had heen committed to a defaulters' detention camp and had not heen discharged, should he erased from every electoral roll. A resolution passed unanimously at a meeting of the Dominion Council of the N.Z.R.S.A. in August, 1945, contendecl that defaulters should be debarred from civil rights for ten years. At a meeting tonight the R.S.A. decided to send a letter to the Prime Minister reiterating its previous resolution on the matter of the rights of ^defaulters.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 October 1946, Page 5
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