SOLDIERS AND THE LICENSING POLL.
' ' fIOVfIaXMENT WILL NOT TAKE action. Tsy'Telegrapli.—Press Association. J ;' r Wellington. Last Xight. The Acting Prime Minister, Sir J.is. Aller, informed, a reporter to-day that .Cabinet had considered the complaint " xuftde bv certain returned soldiers m 'connection witli the licensing poll. These men have been discharged from the Expeditionary Force, and they failed subsequiSntly to get their names placed on the roll. Under the law, therefore, they could not vote at the licensing poll. The flnrernttient would have liked to nel? thc«e men and Be«ure their voting privil"«e. but it could pot do anvfhing for them. .Thev had missed their opportunif In enrol in the ordinary wav and a« thev were discharged they could not be treated as soldiers.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 March 1919, Page 5
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123SOLDIERS AND THE LICENSING POLL. Taranaki Daily News, 19 March 1919, Page 5
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