Maori roll errors
PA Auckland • ■■...- - -•’■ -. • ■ Labour Party officials have identified eight Pacific Islanders in the Birkenhead electorate, whose names appear wrongly on the Northern Maori roll. . “Most have been in New Zealand for donkey’s years and were dumbfounded to know they were on the Maori roll,” one of the officials, Mr R. J. Palmer, has said.
Mr Palmer, the chairman of the Hunua Labour electorate committee (Mr H. R. McCarthy) and a Birkenhead Labour electorate committee member, Mr R. Smythe, knocked on the doors yesterday. They did so to show the Minister of Justice (Mr McLay) how much disarray the electoral rolls are in. Birkenhead is Mr McLay’s electorate. Labour supporters had already uncovered 376 Pacific Island names on the roll and believe that most of them belong to people who have no Maori blood and are thus not eligible to vote in Northern Maori.
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