TOWN CLERKS
ANNUAL CONFERENCE MEETING IN WELLINGTON. MR T. JORDAN ATTENDS OPENING. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. Over sixty local body executive officers are attending the annual conference of lhe Institute of Town Clerks today. They were welcomed by the Mayor. Appreciation of the work of town clerks was also expressed by Mr T. Jordan. President of the It I unicipal Association. Mr A. G. Harper, of Ihe Internal Affairs Department, introduced Mr G. Hayden, officer in charge of the PaIriotic Purposes Branch, who explained and answered questions on the Patriotic Purposes Emergency Regulations. Expressions of opinion on the likely methods to enable members of an Expeditionary Force abroad to vote in both local body and Parliamentary elections was sought by the Department, in a letter which said that voting by proxy or powers of attorney would not be acceptable to the Government as il struck at. lhe very root of the principle upon which the country's electoral laws were framed. The letter was held over for discussion later in the day.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1940, Page 6
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