Elections Petition Case

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 April 1915, Page 3

Elections Petition Case

• Wellington, This Day. TJ o I'll 11 Court resumed hearing this uiori ing of the Elections Petition case. M ■ Skerret, K.C., continued arguinen in support of the contention that thy roll was conclusive. He put his cons .ruction on clause 44 of the Legislature Act, 1908, dealing with the abseuci' of a voter from the district on the question that was raised by section 44, and he argued that the point was not before the Court; neither >iad the question raised by section 196 (f) of t ie same Act anything to do with that raised by section 44; the latter was a separate nd independent provision (lonl'ng with the exclusion of a person from the roll. Section 44 deals with the removal of a voter from the dieti ict, not with his original qualification. Tn the Haivfic's Bay case this was most important, because many por.s nix objected to were persons put on 1 *io roll by the registrar, and had the requisite qualification : but unless the nil was conclusive they would have no i gilt to vote in that district. Ho ask* l I the Court to observe that the lanu lage of section 44 was precisely similir to that of section 18 of the Elec' Tal Act of 1893, under which Act the (inclusive nature of the roll was beyond all doubt. Further, his learned friend had not quoted any authority to show that an "RleH ion Court had any. right to disallow votes of persons pud on the roll ( by the registrar 1