DISPUTED ELECTIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 90, 19 April 1915, Page 6

DISPUTED ELECTIONS.

Rtrtiwtt ;M TO TIME. Pel&. Pi«&& : Atfso6iATiON: Wellington, April 19. The full Court gave its reasons this iftorning for its opinion, expressed on Friday last that both the Bay of Islands and Taumamimi election petitions were in time. In the first-men-tioned ease the Court held that the time within which a petition must be presented (namely,'2B-days) ran from swhen the amended declaration was published after a recount by order of

I magistrate. The* Court iit'ld that the law as now existing, was different from that upon which the Wairarapa case (in which it was held that the tifne ran fr6m the endorsement of a writ) was decided, and that the- case was now of no authority. ft further held shat the words of, section 190 of the Act, 1908," show that the time must fifn from the declaration made in pursuance of section 49 [of the Act of 1910. which is a declarajtiou in the form of No. 22 of schedule $o the Act of 1908. The decision on |he latter point decides the question of time in favour of the petitioner in the Taimi'.'H'un'ui rn»t>. The Court intimated that it would give judgment ion the question of whether the roll was conclusive to-morrow.