Local Elections
Sir, —New voting facilities in the coming municipal elections are part of an important social experiment. The Minister of Internal Affairs will no doubt use the statistics taken from the final figures as a guide to future nation wide action. It is wrong, therefore, that Aranui and Spreydon are to be without a polling booth during the week. If six additional polling booths are necessary let us have them, and by wide and continuous advertising see that they are used fully throughout the week. There could be over 125 names of candidates on the voting papers and some people will need a quarter of an hour to cast their vote. Every candidate is entitled to the dignity of proper consideration and all of us want the maximum possible poll. Let us guard against the possibility of long queues forming round the booths on the evening of October 12.—Yours, etc., PATRICK NEARY. September 2, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31774, 3 September 1968, Page 14
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