Voting Over Week Urged
(NZ Press Association)
AUCKLAND, May 25.
Municipal voting extending over a whole week, instead of one day is favoured by a special sub-committee of the Town Clerks’ Institute which has been studying a way to increase public interest in local body polls.
The sub-committee, which will report to the executive of the institute on June 7 did not pursue the idea of postal voting as an alternative to the present system because it thought it could be open to abuse.
Commenting on proposed legislation to allow changes to the voting system the subcommittee chairman (Mr F. J. Gwilliam), said: “It would give more opportunity of voting to people who have other alternatives on a Saturday. And it would keep up interest in the election for a week, particularly if there were progressive reports on the number of people who had voted." Mr Gwilliam is Town Clerk of Auckland. The other members of the sub-committee are Mr N. L Norman. Town Clerk of Onehunga, and Mr I. A. Webb Town Clerk of One Tree Hill.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29523, 26 May 1961, Page 14
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