CITY BY-ELECTION

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 1 April 1930, Page 14

CITY BY-ELECTION

POLLING TODAY*

ARRANGEMENTS FOR VOTING.

A poll to fill the vacancy on the City Council occasioned by the death of Or. P. W. Sharpe will be taken to-day over the whole Oity. Special interest attaches to the election, as the result may involve a change in the balance of p«>,wer on the Council. The candidates are:— S. T. Armstrong (Labour). 0, E. Jones (Citizens' Association). The method of voting la by striking out the name of the candidate the voter does not wish to vote for. The polling hours are from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. ~ ■ . . Foiling Booths. The polling booths in the central area are as follows: Marquee outside Municipal Offices, 194, Manchester Btreet Tramway Shelter, Cathedral square. Foresters' Hall, Oxford terrace. Knox Church Schoolroom, Bealey aTenue. Methodist Church Schoolroom, FHsgerald avenue and Worcester street. St. John's Church Schoolroom, Madras street. St. Michael's Church Schoolroom, Durham street. ........ Hibernian Hall, Barbadoes street. Methodist Church Schoolroom, Stanmore road. Church of Christ Schoolroom, Moorhens* avenue. St. Andrew's Church Schoolroom, Tuam and Antigua streets. In the Linwood, Bromley, and Woolston areas the polling booths are as follows: Linwood Public Library, Worcester street. Oddfellows' Hall, Bolleston street. Baptist Church Schoolroom, Worcester street, near Linwood avenue. Shoe, 708 Gloucester atreet, near wooanam road. _ ~ , St. Chad's Church Sohoolroom, Buckley a road and Carnarvon street. Mr J. K. Boon's Motor Shed. 81 Ma'thcaon's road. Social Hall, Leyden street. Mr Britten's motor *arag-«, 9 Charles street, McDonald Hall, Aldwtat road, Late Woolston Borough Counoll Chamber*, Ferry road. No. 74 Radley street, Marquee. Monica Park Tea Pavilion, Ferry road. In the St. Albans, Papanui, and Bichmond areas the polling booths are:— Mrs Muigrflvs's Shed, Merlvale lane. Methodist Church Schoolroom, ftajby street Tennis Club Pavilion, Klmwood Park. Memorial Hall, Papanui. Mrs Henderson's Motor Shed, 89a Papanul road. Mr Washbour&e's Motor Shed, Brett's and lanes roads. Salvation Army Hall, Oranford street Mra R. Rosewame's Motor &h»d, 56 Warrington street. Presbyterian Church Schoolroom, Randall Methodist Church Schoolroom, Madras street Korth. _ „ , Mrs Doitoh's Motor Shod, 458 Barbados* street, near Sean street St Albans Public Library, Colombo street. Mr Qurney's Motor Shed, 180 Bealey avenue, near Manchester street in the Sydenham and Spreydon areas the polling booths are:— Baptist Church Schoolroom, Lincoln road. Oddfellows' Hall. Dickens street. Methodist Church Schoolroom, Selwyn and Harman streets. Union Methodist Ohurch Schoolroom, South Crescent road and Selwyn street Late Spreydon Borough Council Chambers, Barrington street. Beckenham Hall, S'omerfleld street. Mr M. O'Loughlln's Motor Shed, 38 Antigua atreet, opposite Crohane street. Sydenham Public Library, Colombo street Sydenham Football Club Booms, Lawton street Tram Oar, Falsgrave street. Public Library, Waltham road. St. Mark's church Schoolroom, Ottawa. St. Martins Library, Wilson's road. Beckenham Methodist Sunday School Hall, Martin avenue. 'Who May Vote. All persons whose names appear on the roll are entitled to vote at to-day's election. There is an impression abroad that only ratepayers can vote, but that is not so. Those possessing the residential qualification, if their names ore on the roll, can exercise their vote. The Town Clerk (Mr J. B. Neville) has had a number of enquiries as to the issue of absent voters' ballot papers, but he had to inform enquirers that there is no provision in the Local Elections and Polls Act for absent voters recording their votes. Companies sad 00-PamersHips.

It is possible for persons, not residents in the City, to vote at to-day's election if they are the duly authorised agents either of incorporated companies and co-partnerships, provided the names of the company or co-partnership is on the roll.

In the case of incorporated companies the person authorised to vote on its behalf must present at the polling booth bis authority to do so under the company's seal. In the case of a copartnership all that is required is an authority for an individual to exercise the vote on behalf of the co-partner-ship. • Voting tr Declaration. There is provision for a person whose name is not on the roll, and who possesses a qualification as a voter, to vote by declaration. The person desiring to vote by declaration must have lodged a claim for enrolment, and a mistake must have been made by the omission of his name from the roll, or by a misprint of his name. The 8011. » The printed roll contains the names of 53,469 voters, but 3330 names have been struck off owing to change of ownership and from other causes. The number entitled to vote is 50,139. Candidates Absent. Neither candidate will be in the City when the result of the poll is declared. Mr 0. E. Jones having been appointed Registrar of the Rotary Conference, prior to his nomination as a candidate, leaves by this evening's ferry steamer for Wellington, en route for Chateau Tongariro, where the conference opens on Thursday. Mr H. T. Armstrong, M.P., left last night for Wellington to attend a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee dealing with the question of; workers' compensation, 'on which Mr Armstrong is the workers' representative. , . The Town Clerk has made arrangements for progress returns to be displayed outside the Municipal offices, , LABOUR CAMPAIGN. The last shots in the Labour cam* paign for the City Council by-election were fired last night. Mr H. T, Armstrong, M.P./* Labour candidate, was on his" way to Wellington, but there was no dearth of speakers to take his P laoe< . L> « it An open-air meeting of three hundred at Sydenham Park was addressed by Mr E. J. Hbward, M.P., Mr P. C. Webb, and Mr J. McCombs, M.P. Mr H. McCaw, chairman of the Labour Representation Committee, presided. Messrs Howard and McCombs also addressed a fair gathering outside the Woolston Fir© Brigade Station, oyer which Mr C E. Baldwin presided. Mr B. M. Macfarlane was the other speaker there. „ „_ To both meetings came Mr MoCombs armed with a formidable budget of figures which he proceeded to analyse before his audiences to prove the worth of the Labour administration on the Citx Council,