ELECTORAL REGISTRATION

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3191, 7 February 1928, Page 7

ELECTORAL REGISTRATION

OBLIGATION OF VOTERS,

PKOVISIONS OF STATUTE

This being General Election year, early attention should be given by electors to ensure that they are registered. Under the Electoral Act, 1927, which came into force on January 1, only one month's grace is allowed electors in which to claim enrolment after becoming qualified for registration. Those who have not enrolled since the roll closed for the general election^ of 1925 and are now qualified to do so—that is to say, are British subjects by birth or by naturalisation, and have resitted in New Zealand for 12 months, and in their present electoral district for three months —should lose no time in getting on the roll. This also applies to electors who have attained the age of 21, and are otherwise qualified. [Then there are others who have removed from one electorate to another three i months or more ago. It is necessary for them to enrol in their new district. i Electors who have changed their adj dresses within the same electoral district must notify the registrar of electors. The time allowed for notification without being liable to prosecution is two months. Every person is liable to a fine not exceeding £50 for wilfully giving a wrong name for enrolment, or signing the name of any other person, whether requested to do so or not, or signing his name as a witness to any signature without having seen it written or heard the person signing declare that the signature is in his own handwriting and that the name signed is his proper name.

The Leeston Postmaster is the Eegistrar of Electors for the Mid-Canter-bury Electoral district.