ELECTORAL ROLL

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 105, 30 October 1931, Page 9

ELECTORAL ROLL

DUTY OF CITIZENS

A short statement on the enrolment of electors was made "by the Prime Minister (the i Bight , Hon. G. W. Forbes) to-day in the House of Ecpresentatiyes. "The emollmg.of clectois under the piovisions of the Electoral Act is piocoeding satisfactorily," ho said. "The latest leturns furnished to the Department show that 65,371 peisons have applied far registration yu the Supplementary Bolls ±01 all clectoial di&- ---■ tucts, 33,877 eleclois h.ivc liansfcrie'd fi om one distnct to atlpthcr, and 15,942 doctors liave changed, their addresses ■within the^lcetoiral districts for -which they aro ro».gjsiettja?These figuies cleai]y indicate thatViJpctoii aio fully ahvo to their obligations under the Hectoial Act. "Every poison who fails to ltgister is habTe^to % pn conviction. In view of tho cticumstanccs and the fact that registration is compulsory, it is not considered necessaiy or advisable t<? tsmploy Government officers to make a li'crusc-fo house visitation m the city elcctfflAteS f&r tho pmposo of enrolling electors," Mr. ■pojbos said'tliat very lively ihoso p&Jp'te'Jvho had complained that they Wre i irol> J .on the main roll would be on th<r3ii{>!flementary roll, which already ctjntaiirea ■•65,000 names. Mr. W. E. Pany (Labour, Auckland Central): -",3?frere are hundreds not on the rolk"" •• - ITr. f*biAos^ "Eterjone is lequned jit legirterj ■dthervviso they are liable td be fined. , That should be sufficient iuducenicllt for them to rcgUtor." Mr. E. -j".'Howard (Labour, Clnisttejurch Sotrth^-- "Has airjono been fiacd1?" Mr. rorbesS -"I believe thrre has been, altH-ough I do not Know <5f 4 ca^e. If 'tho purposes; of tho Act aro being- defeated steprf will bo taken to sfe that they ara earned out."