LYTTELTON SEAT

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 286, 29 August 1933, Page 8

LYTTELTON SEAT

Three Candidates Stand 1128 MORE VOTERS Polling Takes Place Sept. 13 Three candidates will contest the Lyttelton by-election, nominations for which closed at noon yesterday. They are: Mr. Frederick William Freeman (Coalition), Mr. Edward Leslie Hills (Independent Labour), and Mrs. Elizabeth Reid McCombs (Labour). 1 The election will take place on September 13, eight days before Parliament is due to reassemble, and it is anticipated that the official count will be completed and the declaration made in time to allow the elected candidate to take his or her seat in the House of Representatives by opening day. A total of 13,911 electors will be entitled to vote at the by-election. The number of qualified electors at the 1931 general election was 12,783. The Chatham- Islands is included in the Lyttelton electorate, and the number of eligible voters there is 190, an increase of 32 on the number on the roll at the last general election. Under the special regulations which accompany the Electoral Act, the result of the poll at the Chatham Islands is forwarded to the returning officer by wireless, and in this form is accepted for the purposes of the official count. There therefore no need to delay the official’ count until the actual voting papers are received. Electors of Lyttelton who will be absent from the electorate on election' day will be allowed to exercise their votes on that day on making application at any post office. The privilege of voting by this means extends only to persons whose names are on the Lyttelton roll, and who still retain their residential qualification for the Lyttelton electorate. For instance, persons who have qualified for registration in ' another electoral district. by three months’ residence therein lose their “residential qualification” for Lyttelton and are ' note entitled to' vote at the by-election. Each absentee voter is to make personal application to the post office, and before being handed voting papers, will.be required to declare in writing that “his name is on the Lyttelton roll and that he is not qualified to be enrolled as an elector of any other electoral district.” All post offices throughout the Dominion, with tliq exception of those' in the Lyttelton electorate, have been supplied with the -necessary forms for voting. -