ELECTORAL RIGHTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 128, 21 November 1911, Page 2

ELECTORAL RIGHTS.

A PECULIAR CASE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Monday. At a sitting- of the Electoral Court, before Mr. Kettle, S.M., this morning, a point of objection wag taken with regard) to Mrs. L. E. Humes remaining on the roll on the ground that she, having married an American citizen, who has not been naturalised as a British subject, she had forfeited her national status, and could not vote. She had lived in New Zealand four and a half years, and was previously on the roll at Hamil ton. Albert Humes, her husband, said he travelled pretty well all over the world, on behalf of a firm whose headquarters were in Chicago. The magistrate expressed a wish that the case be taken to the full court to get an authoritative ruling, as it was of some importance and of great interest. By section 10 of the English Naturalisation Act, a married woman is deemed a subject of the State of which her husband for the time being is a subject. Mrs. Humes, therefore, lost her status as a British subject when she married an American citizen. The magistrate in structed that Mrs. Humes' name be re moved from the roll.