COMPILING THE NEW ROLL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1035, 26 January 1911, Page 4

COMPILING THE NEW ROLL.

MOUNTING W SLOWLY. The rate at which applications are com* ing in for enrolment on tho new Greater Wellington roll, now in nrocess of compilation, is very slow. I)n an average "2 , to . - h t? vms lmve k* ll Handed in daily of late, lesterday over 50 applications for enrolment were made, but this represented an abnormal jump from the average that has riilcd of late. These low figures may possibly suggest a deeper apathy than actually exists. A factor to bo considered is that a great number of enrolment forms havo been issued, from the Town' Clerk's office, which will no dgubt return, in shoals when the date for'closing the' roll is near at hand.' For instance, some 000 application forms have been 6upplied' to the Trades Council, of which only aliout. 25 have as yet. been returned, although it is a matter, of common knowledge that the local Labour people are actively organising in preparation for the fortncom-. ing municipal election. Everything possible has been done by the corporation to attract the attention of those, qualified toonrol. The employment of canvassers is' no longer permissible, but the conditions, of enrolment have been freely advertised in the local press, and have also beea stated in numerous news paragraphs. The new.main roll, which has now teen; handed to th& printers, contains 16,714 names,, and about 150 applications have been approved for enrolment on the sup-> plementary rolls. The roll used during the council election in 1909 contained. 28,239 names, and the roll used at the Mayoral election contained 31,878 namea Thus something like 15,000 nanies. ; have been purged from the roll as a preliminary to the compilation now in progress. Pivo officers of the City Council, engaged upon the roll, under the supervision of Sir. James Aimes, City Valuer, are kept busily cnployed. A striking exhibit in the office where the applications aro reviewed is a pile of five or six thousand letters. All of them have been returned as "dead" by the post office after Toeing dispatched to residents with a view to discovering whether they were still entitled to hav« their names upon the roll.