ELECTORAL LAW BROKEN
WELLINGTON PROSECUTIONS Press Association WELLINGTON, Friday. It is regarded as a serious offence for anyone to sign an electoral form for another person or to witness a signature without seeing it made by the person to whom it belongs. Alexander Houston was prosecuted for the first offence to-day and Woolf Phillips for the second. Houston was at his brother John’s home and made out two applications for registration, one for John Houston and the other for his wife. Next day John Houston took both forms to Phillip’s and he witnessed them. The prosecution admitted that there was no fraudulent intent, but the parties had simply gone the wrong way about the business. Such offences were serious, however, particularly now in vievj of the forthcoming elections. Fines of 10s were imposed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 460, 15 September 1928, Page 12
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133ELECTORAL LAW BROKEN Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 460, 15 September 1928, Page 12
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