MAORI ELECTIONS
LOOSELY CONDUCTED BUT * C OOD-] f l'AlO RED. WELLINGTON, Nov. 4. The looseness of the conduct <M ■ Maori elections was referred to in the • House to-day by Afr Savage, who ex- i pressed the opinion that there should : be a Maori roll and decent regain- , lions governing the conduct of the ; elections. He believed that at present j the conditions were bad and that at times electors voted in a queue looking over one another's shoulders. Air Wilford said lit* had hoard of a case where the ballot box was taken out to a voter v, ho did not leave i.-- 1 carriage. Tli* 'ion n*i , i • II I IVi'rci n "\ i I*o
Mr Savage: If I were a Maori representative It would he like Tennyson's brook, l would “go oil for ever.’’ They would be afraid to du anything against me. Air Massey said lie had seen one .Maori election, and though it was loosely conducted it was very goodhumored, more good-humored than Pakeha contests. He thought power already was on the Statute Book to permit improvements.-—Special.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9853, 5 November 1924, Page 2
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