LOCAL BODIES-ELECTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 23, 27 January 1911, Page 4

LOCAL BODIES-ELECTIONS.

--. -- I" I- ' "''' ! A DAY OUT Ft)R VDTERB. Under'the various acts cbntroUing-th*: elections of r loca>l-, : bpdiesr;.-*to»,- »?"W eVery likelihood voters 'will hay* anil" teresting" time in 'rejecting tiieir,-cao4»"-dates" in the-future; This doer w»t.«parently apply to the cohMngrekewafot the City CouncUi'Harboar 'pi<a r do bo to 1 future odes unless 1*» Act-i» amended lit the • mteM v :;'TaW%tffij:;. position as tkr as is concerned'it is estimated that #«"**• extended franchise trite-rolls will- »KWJ when completed, about 24,000 names, ana the Act-provides that a poUjag ':][£&•■ shall be" provided! for every 2000 electo*fcUnless it is possible to hold the vartpuj, elections for the- different bodies m «• same booth it will.mean 'that the «eturaing Officer must provide ibout, 48 j»otßf. arid will require;*, staff '-oi «°*®W;S& I sistants. The difficulty arwetf *«n m fact that the,elect>ion,p{;the%Mayor, »•. Council .the Hospital and QharitaUevA'J Board, and most probably Board must aU.be held oa the Supposing there'are three,«*•*£*£g Mayor, about 30 for tlie Cohncil, w*JtM, : , candidates for the Hospitaland •Mar*,. able Aid-Board and^vWlH>wßpg : added, it will mean that each *""££» require to make-a selection for ton■«*... The question naturally,aru^aa p to h *R long it will take the average elector » perform that task? It | the voter to read each many names are to M;4efgt^t»W next choose 15 three for the^Hospital^^% &s Board, and rioT s^lfiT^eter Allowing only. ggi .to ge*-through With *£S&£ffiS%«| fareTcomparativelj-few-whoj^^7-that time, it must %^£s%£grt., event of a heavy poll there . be considerable »£*s§£ ; larire number of votes- as •?« ;...',# \ course cannot .*.. «»£*£,<££ ** next day, and the Heturning,.,,,.. hUsta/Villbeatworkallnigbt. _ ,