SEAMEN'S VOTES
DIFFICULTY CAN BE GOT OVER. «' By Telegraph.—Press. Association, Dunedin, March 6. Referring to the complaint by seamen regarding votes for the licensing poll, Sir .Tames Allen has been advised by bir Francis 801 l that the technical difficulty created by the fnct that no writ, aa at a general election, can be issued, can no Bit over. -To provide for such possible events the worde "with all necessary modifications" wore inserted in subsection 2 of section 24 of the Licensing Act. Those words will enable the fixing of a dato precedent to tlie poll as equivalent to the date of issue of a writ, and such date can be filed by regulation under the Licensing Act. jt will probably bo n date between Marcs 20 and 27 to correspond approximately with the time elapsing between the issue of writs. and the date of polling at a general election.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 139, 7 March 1919, Page 5
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150SEAMEN'S VOTES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 139, 7 March 1919, Page 5
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