POLLING ARRANGEMENTS
Sir,—As schools, particularly country schools, have from time immemorial been used as polling booths, and as teachers’ services have been utilised therewith, does it not seem uneconomical that some returning officers have departed from this custom and appointed polling booth officers other than teachers to fill those positions, thereby adding transport expenses to the ordinary fees? —Yours, etc., INQUIRER. August 17, 1951. [An official of the Canterbury Education Department, to whom this letter was referred, said that the Prime Minister, through the two August issues of the “Education Gazette,” which is circularised to all schools, asked teachers to act as deputy returning officers or poll clerks on election day if they could. An electoral officer of an electorate where a number of school teachers are employed as deputy returning officers and poll clerks on election day, said that in all cases where a school teacher has applied for a position, the application has been granted except where the application has not been made in time and the position has already been filled.]
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26513, 30 August 1951, Page 5
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