Following the resignation of Robert Heaton Rhodes from his Akaroa seat in the New Zealand parliament, William Montgomery contested the 20 April 1874 by-election against Walter Pilliet.
[1] In July 1874, a select committee declared Montgomery's election to be "null and void", as he had a contract for the supply of railway sleepers with the general government in breach of election rules.
The select committee accepted that the breach was inadvertent.
[2] Montgomery stood for re-election in the second by-election, on 10 August 1874[3] and was returned unopposed.
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