RUSH ON THE ROLL

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 11, 13 July 1943, Page 3

RUSH ON THE ROLL

The Post Office appears to; be thp chief Government Department fun on the principle of "Let George do it.** Queues on queues of people line up there for business quite other than posts and telegraphs. While they wait they might well wonder at the patience (exceeding their own) of the assistant! of both sexes behind the grills, wonder how they copa with the business, and come out square—if they do—at ;the end of the day. The. district registrar of electors yesterday had his busy day with queues and queues of electors' passing up and down stairs to enrol or to see that they were still on the^ roll and if not why? The registrar's quarters are in Bowen Chambers, which, as everyone does not knowi has two entrances,' and the registrar is to. be found in the' one that nobody goes" to at first. "Yes. that is the -right place— five doors , higher up," someone informed a wet and muddled lady yes* terday in answer to the question "Where do you put your names down on the roll?" Up a dog-leg staircase with barely • room for two slender people to pass she went. The space between the counter and the wall was packed. Rain drips from "mack," oil* skin, and umbrella irrigated the floor: a crowd two to three deep breasted at the counter. Here the electoral officer and his aids were kept hard al it hour after hour, answering questions reasonable ,and otherwise with amazing celerity and politeness. Electors hay« ing checked up or made out new cards had. that comforting sense of "th« customer is always right." The officials did nothing to dispel it. '