CLOSING TO-MORROW

Evening Star, Issue 25941, 5 November 1946, Page 6

CLOSING TO-MORROW

PARLIAMENTARY ROLLS

POSITION OF EX-SERVIBEMEN

The parliamentary rolls for the forthcoming'General Election will close at 6 o’clock to-morrow evening, and any person desiring to vote at this election, hut whose name does not appear oh the roll, must deposit a valid application for enrolment at the office; of of electors hot later than that 'hour. In order to enable any persons to make such application, the registrar’s office will remain open until 6 p.m. to-morrow. All persons desiring, to enrolmust be 21 years of age or over, with the exception of ex-overseas servicemen and women, who may be enrolled if they have not reached that age, provided that they have fulfilled the three months’. residential qualification in their present electorate. This includes former J-Force personnel. Ex-over-seas personnel will be able to vote by declaration on the day of the election even if their names do not appear, on a roll. This applies also to those exservice personnel/yrho have not reached the age of 21. ( It should be clearly understood, however, that former service personnel cannot enrol until they have lived in the electorate for three months.

In addition to this, other persons desiring to enrol must have resided in New Zealand for one year at any time in their lives, and for three months in the electorate for which they wish to' enrol. The only exceptions are the wives or widows of former overseas servicemen. These, if not on a roll at the moment, may register. ABSENTEE VOTERS. i

The registrar of electors (Mr G. A. Hislop) said this morning that he had received a. number of inquiries concerning the procedure to be adopted in order to obtain an absentee vote. Briefly, he said, an absent voter is one who will not be in his osvn electorate on the day the election is held, and will definitely be able®to attend at a booth in some other electorate in order to cast his vote. This class of elector, on entering the booth, is required to state that he or she is desirous of voting as an absent voter, and to complete a declaration im the booth stating the electorate in which they have enrolled, together with address and occupation as they appear on that roll. • After the declaration has been witnessed the necessary voting papers are provided and the vote may be cast.