ELECTION EXPENSES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1460, 7 June 1912, Page 6

ELECTION EXPENSES.

riRST or IT 5 ' IvIXD. (B'v •'d'elcirraph— Sp.eciai' ! Corre's[ionden't.!, , ', ~'■.' .. .. ■' Foxton, June (i. ■ A judgment, bearing upon rarliamen!(•anitida.'es' .election' advertising exp'ansej.': was deliv'ered : "\ ; eStci : dav in the Magistrate'.-; Court by .Mr. it; J). Timiiir son, The. ease was one in wiiicli tlio -Manawatii Herald" sued &■. A. Monck--ton, late candidir,.e.for the Oiaki riecto'i'&>£i- tar Iho Mini of .Kt'Ss., for iulvertis;i,i" in ebnnection with the late ciectioiu "I'he "Herald" was iioris.uitcd- -on the ■grb.un.ds. (in .accordance with. Sectioir ]7,"> ■of the. Legi-latuio Act, 1!!0H) that no ao.tioii' for the fccover.v 'of : tlio sum ill iicampe:<?nt :t:'onri wa< iii.-titiited . within ninety, days of the election. I'lainlifi had s(, n' l i», a claiiii..'for tho <aiitount within thirty days, but tho aceoniit was dispuf- <•<!• owing to an alleged" .pvnrcii ; hrsc'/ ! q"ii.d- : . ■tlve niatler-.was not proceeded ivilh tntil top late.

I" giyini! judgment, the magistrate stated that the case appearcif tq he the first■:'of its kind in Xeu; Zeal and, .oivd-fliat-, ;n Knglaud, iinilcr ihi'.'tV.rrnpt. and Illegal Practices Act, lfeS,..it was required, thai', claims shonhl.be >ent in within, i'oiirtc-eti. days, and paid within twenty-eight days. ■ 'Hfo 'magistrate "orilcrcd- c-aeli party.to pay his (jivtt costs, '.