GISBORNE TRAM POLL
DECLARED INVALID CONFINED TO RATEPAYERS Press Association. GISBORNE, To-day. On the ground that a poll should be taken of the electors as a whole and not of ratepayers only, the second poll, which resulted in a proposal to discontinue the Gisborne tramways being carried, was upset by Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., this morning. The first poll of ratepayers was upset on a technical point, and the second was taken last year, resulting in favour of the discontinuance of the trams. A second appeal was then lodged, and the decision on this was adjourned several months ago, pending decision in a case believed to have been referred to the Court of Appeal, but which it has now transpired is not going forward. The ruling of Mr. Justice Herdman, therefore stood, stated Mr. Lewey, that the poll should have been of the general body of electors. In this case therefore, he must find that the poll being taken of ratepayers only was invalid. The Magistrate allowed £6 6s costs to the petitioners-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 169, 7 October 1927, Page 9
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174GISBORNE TRAM POLL Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 169, 7 October 1927, Page 9
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