CORRESPONDENCE.

Evening Star, Issue 7326, 26 September 1887, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not hold ourselves responsible (or the opinions expressed by our correspondents.! PENINSULA ELECTION. - TAMPERING WITH THE ELECTORAL ROLL. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —An Englishman lores fairplay, and his clearest privilege in these parts to-day is the right to vote. This right is very carefully guarded by the law of the land; and no man in New Zealand probably knows better how that right is protected than does Mr White, chairman of Mr Begg'a Committee. It is amazing, therefore, to find that gentleman, in the interest of his candidate, inducing the good-natured but too compliant Registrar to commit an illegal act. The act of which I complain is the removal of my name from the electoral roll just on the eve of closing it, and without giving me notice as required by the Registration of Electors Act now in force. Mr White found my name on the roll as the owner of freehold property at Vauxhall. He knew that I had parted with a portion of that property. He also, as recently chairman of the Road Board and otherwise, knew that I still own property at Vauxhall in the form of freehold, valued for rating purposes at LBOO, and for which I pay L2los yearly as road rates. Mr White assumed (and his assumption was correct) that I intended to vote for Mr Larnach, and therefore deliberately, and in a most highhanded way, by misrepresentation of the facts stated above, prevailed on a reluctant Registrar (whose duty it is to protect the rights of the electors) to cancel my name in a manner which is grossly illegal. Were suoh meddling with the electoral rolls to be tolerated, you will see that it would put every eleotor to the trouble of. inspecting the rolls up to the moment of closing them on the occasion of every election, for fear of some impertinent and unholy tampering as that which I am asking you to expose. To right the wrong here committed, I call on all electors who love fair play to mark their sense of such unworthy tactics by voting for the chivalrous Mr Larnach, who was never known to hit below the belt.—l am, etc., James G. Black. The University, September 25.