LYTTELTON SEAT.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20421, 16 December 1931, Page 10

LYTTELTON SEAT.

POLLING IN CHATHAM ISLANDS. PROVISIONS OP THE ACT. • % - * Although complaints Ijave bae» , of the practice of closing the'*® 8 booths in the Chatham Islands at 4 p.m. on Election Day, instead of at - p.m. as elsewhere, the Electoral Aet ' (1927) declares that neither this not £ny Other allegation of irregular n fo eedure at the Chatham Wands is guffi* cient ground for questioning +1 " validity of the election. Section 14 of the Act define, the ' Chatham Islands as part of the Lvtifl ton electorate (or, for Maori reoE* tation, as part of the Western l£ori Electoral District), and states that poll of electors shall be taken aecerdinz to regulations made by the GeveS General in Council. The last sub-section (5) reads'— The validity of any election" or licensing poll shall not be miestL.S on the ground th 3 t anything rpquS to be done pursuant to this sedtLn or to regulations thereunder has S been done, or hps been irregularly doße or that for any reason it has" been found impracticable to receive the veta of any .person who is entitled to v«rt« by- virtue of this section, or that .» person yrbo has voted was not entitled to vote by virtue of this section " The votes polled in the Chatham Island have now been cheeked h™ +V Beturning Officer for Lyttelten Sfej' N. Neville) and found correct accord! mg to the first return: Freeman McCembs w • (C,) Waitangi .. ,=jC> 12 , Owenga ]0 1S Kaingaroa 4 • 3 " Totals .. 70 ,33 The figures do not affect the mu ii ia any way, and the deplanes of the po)l was made '