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Revision of the New Voting Lists

... Assistant Overseeer in each parish, whOse task was not an easy one in spite of the supposed simplicity Of the new Representation of the People Act. With the addition of the women voters over 30 years of age, and the Army and Navy voters over 19 years, each ...

Published: Friday 16 August 1918
Newspaper: Buckinghamshire Examiner
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 287 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Care for the Dependants

... further consideration. BUCKS REGISTER OF ELECTORS. The first Register of Electors for Bucks compiled under the Representation of the People Act, 1918, is uow completed, and is an interesting and bulky document. Mr. W. Crouch has been responsible as registration ...

Published: Friday 15 November 1918
Newspaper: Buckinghamshire Examiner
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 405 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Work ander the Weights and Mesmer Acts

... Lists : Estimated Doubled Electorate. The Parliamentary Committee dealt fully with the work required under the Representation of the People Act, 1918, in preparing the Spring and Autumn Registers of Voters, and stated that it was estimated that with the ...

Published: Friday 10 May 1918
Newspaper: Buckinghamshire Examiner
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 1133 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Bed Cross Penny-a.week Collections

... midst of the rush and turmoil of this world-wide war few people have realised the revolution that has taken place in our electoral system by the passing of the Representation of the People Act. To the Speaker of the House of Commons—who was Chairman of ...

Published: Friday 15 March 1918
Newspaper: Buckinghamshire Examiner
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 625 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NINE FLOORS OF SHOWROOMS. MID BUCKS LIBERAL ASSOCIATION

... Liberal Agent, has been appointed to take charge of the organisation for the purposes of registration under the Representation of the People Act. Captain Stanley Griffith-Jones said the last time he had the privilege of addressing the members was at Hampden ...

Published: Friday 12 April 1918
Newspaper: Buckinghamshire Examiner
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 808 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The Naval War

... problems affecting distribution. The Reform Bill. The principal Parliamentary event has been the passing of the Representation of the People Bill. This bill, which is a triumph of the British genius for compromise, has been in some respects rather a House ...

Published: Friday 04 January 1918
Newspaper: Buckinghamshire Examiner
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 554 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE BRITISH SCUTTLE AND IMEE GERMAN =nu. BY He was a bit of a curmudgeon, and I rather expected to

... he intended that every single vote he gave should be based upon that truth. While the people were asleep the landlord would get more than his fair share and the people who paid the taxes would get less than theirs. Did not facts prove this ? Of two and ...

Published: Friday 18 October 1918
Newspaper: Buckinghamshire Examiner
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 1672 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AYLESBURY BOROUGH NOTES

... time goes on others will be. It is pretty evident that the electorate will be very much larger than most people .anticipated, for the new Franchise Act embraces many who little thought they would be included. In Aylesbury it is believed the number of electors ...

Published: Friday 03 May 1918
Newspaper: Buckinghamshire Examiner
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 695 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A NEW SPIRIT WANTED

... outside, reminded his hearers that Lord Salisbury once laid it down that what the people wanted was a circus and not reforms. Mr. Scurr said a Labour Party was not, as some people imagined, a new thing in politics, although as a matter of fact up to the present ...

Published: Friday 04 October 1918
Newspaper: Buckinghamshire Examiner
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 895 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AYLESBURY BOROUGH NOTES

... Caster, of Bedford, be invited to accept the appointment of Acting Clerk to the Committee for the period of the war or the return of Mr. Broughton from military service. Unfortunately the Man-Power Act has had the effect of upsetting this arrangement, as the ...

Published: Friday 10 May 1918
Newspaper: Buckinghamshire Examiner
County: Buckinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 917 | Page: 4 | Tags: none