DUNEDIN CENTRAL SEAT.
THIRTY SEAMEN'S VOTES DISALLOWED. EFFECT OF THE NEW LAW. Per Press .Association. Dunedin, February 5. Mr W. Belcher, secretary of the Seamen's. Union, informed a reporter today that thirty members of the crew of the Maunganui, one belonging to Tahiti, whose names are amongst the hundred and five seamen on the supplementary roll for Dunedin Central had their votes disallowed by the Col-
lector of Customs, for reasons under the new law that if' such men wish to record their votes, they can only do so at Wellington, where the articles were taken out, and only in an electorate in which a Customs house is situated.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 29, 5 February 1915, Page 6
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109DUNEDIN CENTRAL SEAT. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 29, 5 February 1915, Page 6
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