THE MUNICIPAL ROLL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1074, 13 March 1911, Page 4

THE MUNICIPAL ROLL.

FIGURES MOUNTING VERY SLOWLY. The figures of (ho new municipal roll hayo been mounting very slowly during llio past two weeks, applications averaging only about fifty per day. The roll now bears about. 21,301) name's, ami it is reasonable to suppose that unless more active tactics are adopted than have ruled for some, lime past, it will hardly attain the total of thirty thousand odd borne by the roll of 1909, which was this year reduced, by purjins, to 10,714. Mr. Ames now has a stail of nine officials working upon the roll. Two of them arc engaged in special canvassing with a view to tlio discovery of duplicated enrolments and similar irregularities. It is a striking testimony to the indifference with which some people regard their electoral privileges that quite a number of applicants calling at the Town Hall have shown themselves ignorant of the separate existence of a roll of Parliamentary voters and a roll of municipal electors. The roll clerks have been interrogated in apparent good faith by people v;ho considered that because they voted at the last Parliamentary election their names should appear on the municipal roll.