VICTORIAN ELECTION.
7"*~ UPPER HOUSE SEATS. liy Telegrapn—l'reaa Association—Ooprrlffbt Melbourne, June 3. Tho Legislative Councils elections for seventeen vacaucies resulted in small polling. Eight candidates . were returned unopposed. Out of tho nine contests only one Labour candidate was returned, Mr. Jones unseating Mr.' Pitt, for East Melbourne.
[he. ratepaying qualification for th'e Victorian Upper House franchise is £10 annual value as owner and .£ls as tenant. Apart from this, electors' rights may be taken out by graduates of British universities, barristers and solicitors, medical practitioners, ministers of religion, certificated school teachers, officers of tho land and iea forces and matriculated students of the Melbourne University. There should bo several thousands of these electors, but as a rule only a few hundred, mainly State school teachers and ministers of religion, take out rights.]
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 834, 4 June 1910, Page 5
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132VICTORIAN ELECTION. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 834, 4 June 1910, Page 5
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