THE! ELECTORAL ROLLS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2216, 31 July 1914, Page 7

THE! ELECTORAL ROLLS.

Anxiety has bean shown on more than one. occasion this session about the working of tho new system for the compilation of the electoVal rolls! Yesterday tho Minister in charge of the Depart, ment (the, Hon. F. M. B.j Fisher) replied to' a volley of questions on the mibjeot. . Mr. Fisher, was alile to assure his questioners that up till tho present the work in the and towns had been done well by tho postal authorities, and now.the police were going to begin in the,: country districts. Ho was glad ■to say. that the ,work had never before teen carried out so satisfactorily as this year, and that at the end of-tho year tho Department hoped that the rolls would be in a. better state than ever before. :;

A difficulty was suggested by the inember for Ohinemuri.- He wanted .to know what would happen in the event of a man leaving one town to live on an adjoining one m tho! same electorate'. > .Would the postal authorities strike him off the roll?

Mr. Fisher: "The honourable gentleman will see that if we have this system, and if wo leave the names on the roll'of people who cannot: be found, that roll is useless. If a man leaves.a district, and is so- negligent that he does not leave his -address, then he cannot vote. That's all about it. We must have clean rolls."