FIRST MAORI ROLL
TOTAL OF 31,091 NAMES 36,891 VOTES AT LAST ELECTION “The Press” Special Service WELLINGTON, October 12. The main Maori electoral roll to be used at the coming election has been printed and has been circulated among welfare officers and officers of the Maori Affairs Department. It contains a total of 31,091 names distributed among the four electorates as follows, the number of voters at the election in 1946 being given for com-
Total .. 31,091 36,891 Because of the hundreds of post offices that would have to be supplied in each of the electorates, the roil will not be available for public inspection at these offices in the same way as the European roll. The supplementary roll is now being compiled through the welfare officers and will close on the day on which the writ for the election is issued, after the dissolution of Parliament.
parison:— 1949 1946 Northern Maori .. 7,927 9.501 Eastern Maori .. 11,506 13,564 Western Maori .. 10,406 12,671 Southern Maori 1,252 1,155
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25933, 13 October 1949, Page 4
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