THE ROLLS

Evening Star, Issue 25893, 10 September 1946, Page 6

THE ROLLS

CLOSING ON FRIDAY STILL 3,060 ELECTORS SHORT The general rolls for the forthcoming parliamentary elections will close next Friday. On present indications about 3,000 Dunedin electors who have failed to register will be disfranchised. Another appeal to electors to check that their names are on the rolls was ■ made to-day by the registrar (Mr G. A. Hislop), who emphasised that if the elector had not received a notification from his office during the last two months his name would not be on the general rolls for Dunedin. Of tbe four city electorates, Dunedin Central is still approximately 2,000 names short of its .quota of 14,619 Dunedin North, is in the best position, with only 512 names short, and both Mornington and St. Hilda are each about 1,000 short, It was stressed by Mr Hislop that persons must not apply for enrolments unless they are, eligible. Some confusion has been caused by people trying to enrol before they had resided for three months in the. electorate. When the supplementary rolls opened. au opportunity would be given for most of those people to register before October. It will also assist the registrar’s stag if all witnesses to signatures on enrolment cards would write their, names legibly, and also refrain from witnessing signatures of persons applying for enrolment in electorates other than that in which the witness is regisEnrolment forms are obtainable from all post offices and the office of the Registrar of Electors in Customhouse Square.