DUAL VOTER’S EXCUSE
NEWCOMER TO DOMINION Press Association WELLINGTON, Thursday. After having voted as an absentee at one booth on Election Day, Alfred Grisedale went to Kelburn and recorded an ordinary vote at a booth there. When interviewed by the police Grisedale’s excuse was that he was advised by friends that he must vote at Kelburn. He acted under a misunderstanding. He had not voted in New Zealand before. To the Magistrate at Wellington today, the returning officer said he had no reason to doubt accused’s explanation. Accused was committed for sentence, bail being allowed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 537, 14 December 1928, Page 13
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95DUAL VOTER’S EXCUSE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 537, 14 December 1928, Page 13
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