THE LICENSING POLL.
•DISTRIBUTING DODGERS By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, Yesterday. At the Magistrate's Court throe charges were heard of distributing dodgers for the purpose of influencing voters at the licensing poll in April Counsel for defendants urged that the court could not .apply the section of the Legislature Act and Licensing Act for weeks before the election. Newspapers were full of advertisements advising people how to vote, yet when a man distributed an inoffensive paper for the same purpose he was prosecuted. The Magistrate said there could only be a a prosecution by discretion of the Minister, subject to an opinion being expressed by the chairman of the adjudicating court that the irregularity affected the fairness of the result of thf joll, The eases vmu dumuped,
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1919, Page 5
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126THE LICENSING POLL. Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1919, Page 5
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