INVERCARGILL BY-ELECTION
ABSENTEES AND SEAMEN.
[per press association.]
WELLINGTON, August 11. Electors of Invercargill, who will be absent from the electorate during the hours of polling on Wednesday, August 13, may exercise their votes on making personal application to any postmaster during the hours of attendance. The right to vote by this means extends only to electors, whose names are on the Invercargill roll, and who still retain their residential qualifications. Electors who have qualified for registration in another electoral district by three months’ residence therein, are not eligible to vote as absent voters for Invercargill. At the time of applying to vote, each elector will be required to declare in wilting that he is registered on the Invercargill roll. Seamen do not come under these provisions. A seamen voting outside his electorate, must be in possession of a seaman’s right and apply in person to the Collector of Customs at any time after the issue of the writ, and before the time fixed for the close of the poll. _____
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19300812.2.3
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1930, Page 2
Word Count
170INVERCARGILL BY-ELECTION Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1930, Page 2
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in