Informal Votes at Licensing Elections.
(per press association). Wellington, May 12. The Chief Justice has decided, at the instance of Masterton electors, tho question of the counting of informal votes at the Wairarapa licensing election. His Honor said he had no doubt that informal votes were absolutely void and could not be in the count for any purpose. It appears to him that section 18 directed the returning officer to ascertain and give public notice of tho number of votes recorded for and against the several proposals. It would follow that the same meaning must be attached to the words "votes recorded" in the latter part as was plainly given to them in the earlier part of the section. In his opinion, therefore, informal votes were void, and could not be counted for any purpose under section 18. He accordingly granted the prayer of the statement of claim that a mandamus be issued requiring the returning officer to declare and notify the poll to be void.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 313, 14 May 1894, Page 2
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166Informal Votes at Licensing Elections. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 313, 14 May 1894, Page 2
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