MUNICIPAL FRANCHISE.
A PROTEST
BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION. TIMARU, August 25. At a meeting of the Borough Council, last night, the Mayor Craigie) referred in the reverse of complimentary terms to Mr Fisher's Bill extending the Parliamentary franchise to municipalities. It was not right, he said, that every person twenty-one years of age should have the right to vote at a municipal election when contributing nothing to the rates. Councillors endorsed the Mayor's protest, and joined him in the hope that the Bill would be thrown out by the Legislative Council.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9175, 26 August 1908, Page 5
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91MUNICIPAL FRANCHISE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9175, 26 August 1908, Page 5
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