ELECTION DECLARED VOID.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10049, 21 May 1910, Page 6

ELECTION DECLARED VOID.

By Telegraph—Press Association. ASHBUKTON, May 19. A case of considerable interest regarding local bodies elections came before Mr V. G. Day, S.M., this morning, in the nature of a petition lodged by James Dellow, farmer, of Mayfield, whose nomination paper aa a candidate in the Rangitoto Road Board election had been refused by the Returning Officer on the ground that it waa invalid by reason of not being dated. The evidence showed that Dellow had handed in his nomination papsr endorsed by two ratepayers and that the document bore no Cate. Subsequently Dellow went to the Returning Officer and demanded the return of the paper prior to the closing of nomination for the purpose of inserting the date. The Returning Officer refused to return the paper, and when a new paper was brought to the Board's office v on the day nominations closed the officerwas absent at noon, and afterwards he refused to accept it as valid. After lengthy argument the Magistrate decided that he had no option but to grant the petition. - The fact that tha nomination paper was not dated did not invalidate it. The election of the Board was therefore declared void, but costs were not allowed against the Returning Officer.