GENERAL ELECTION

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10733, 2 November 1928, Page 8

GENERAL ELECTION

A NEW SYSTEM. VOTING BY POST. : TRIAL THIS ELECTION. RETURNING OFFICERS ACTIVE. The returning officers in the various electorates are now issuing voto certificates and ballot papers to those electors who are entitled to make use of the postal voting certificates which are to he used for the first time at the forthcoming general election. Information as to whom are entitled to vote by post is: (1) Any degistered elector who. on account of (illness or infirmity, cannot attend a polling booth, or (2) who will not throughout the .hours of polling on election day be within five miles by the nearest practicable route of any booth; or (3) who will be travelling under conditions which prevent his attendance at a booth; or (4) who is a: lighthouse-keeper or the wife of a lighthouse-keeper, or a member of a lighthouse-keeper's .staff, or the wife of a member of a lighthouse-keeper’s

staff; or (5) who will, by approaching (or recent) maternity be precluded from* attending at any polling place to vote; or (6) who will he absent from New Zealand on election day. Electors as mentioned above may apply forthwith to the returning officer for their electoral _ district for an application form .asking for the necessary papers. They may vote by post any time from now on to election day. It is not necessary to wait until November 14. The certificates and papers must reach the office of the returning officer for the electoral district before 7 p.m. on election day. Such is not the case with absent voters. A registered elector who will he absent from his electoral district on election day, but within reach of a polling booth may vote as an absent voter during tho hours of polling upon satisfying the deputy-re-turning officer that he is. unable to record his vote’as an ordinary elector in his own electorate, and upon making a declaration on an application form provided for the purpose. The correct electoral district must be stated, otherwise the vote will be disallowed. “The United Party is a ‘shake-up’ of resurrected Liberals, disgruntled politicians and others, chiefly differing from Reform in their readiness to borrow a few more millions.”— Mr A. H. Cur tie, an Auckland Indn--pendent candidate.

THE MAORI SEATS. | COMMISSION OF OFFENCES. NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES. PENALTY FOR PERSONATION. j In connection with the election for the return of four. Maori members of Parliament on November 13, a notice is gazetted drawing attention to the law governing offences at such elections. Deputy-ret'urning officers are empowered. without further warrant than tho Electoral Act, 1927, to have arrested any person reasonably suspected of committing or attempting to commit any act of personation at • a polling place. It is the duty of returning officers to prosecute anyone . believed to have committed the offence or to have aided, abetted, counselled or procured it. Offenders are liable to imprisonment for two years, with or without hard labor. The definition of personation is: “Every person commits the offence of. personation who at any election applies to vote in the. name of some other person either living or dead, or of a fictitious person, or who, having voted once, applies again at the same election to vote in his own name.”

WHAT DEFEAT MAY MEAN. BANKRUPTCY FOR MANY MEMBERS! “Are you in favor bf reducing the salaries of members of Parliament?” Mr F. N. Bartrani, Labor candidate for Grey Lynn, was asked when addressing the electors at Auckland. The questioner went so far. as to suggest that the salary should he reduced from . £450 to £l5O in view of the fact that M.PJs spend only eighty days in tho House each year. . “I am going to he quite honest,” Mr Bartrani replied. “So far from accepting the proposition of my friend. I am in favor of increasing the honorarium. I believe the av- : erage man drawing the basic wage of £4 8s a -week is a long way better off than the member, of Parliament. I will tell you candidly that, if defeated, .50 per cent, of the members of Parliament are faced with bankruptcy.” Referring to the. policy of the United Party, as outlined By Sir Joseph Ward, Mr Wilford said that newspapers might criticise the policy, which was a fair attituce for them to take up, but they could not say the United Party had not a policy. The Labor-Socialist policy, said Mr Wilford, was: “Let us smash the Reform policy to bits.” The United policy was: “Let its build and help 'our country.”

FOR PARLIAMENTARY HONORS FURTHER LIST OF CANDIDATES The following is a further list of candidates nominated for tho general election on November 14:— HAURAKL (New seat). E. Allen (U.). A. W. Hail (R.). O. R. Petrie (Lab.). THAMES. *A. M. Samuel (R.)., for Ohinemnri .J. S. Montgomerie (Lab.). E. McGregor (U,). A. J. Whiteside (Lib.) WAIKATO *D. S. Reid (R.). P. Keighan (Coun. P.b F. Lye (U.) TAURANGA. . *C. E. Macmillan (R,). D. C. Chalmers (Lab.). Thos. Lochhead (U.). F. C. Colbeck (Coun* P.) WAITOMO. *J. C. Rolleston (R.). W. J. Broadfoot (U.). O'. Croall (Lab.), ROTORUA *F. F* Hockley (R.). A. G. Christopher (Lab.). S. H. .Tudd (Coun. P.). C, H. Clinkard (U).

WAIMARINO. *R. W. Smith (U.). F. Langstone (L.) ~ HAWKE’S BAY. *H. M. Campbel 1 (R.). John Lyon (Lab., G. McKay (U.) MANAWATU. *J. Linklater (R..). H. J’. D. McManawav find, R.). P. J. Small (U.). J. H. Taylor (Lab.). PAHIATUS. *E. A. Ransom (U.). , Joseph Whittle (Lab.). G. H. Smith (R,). HUTT. *T. M. Wilford (U.). Walter Nash (Lab.). WELLINGTON NORTH. a Sir John Luke (R,)* C. H. Chapman (Lab.). WELLINGTON EAST: *T. F'orsyth (R.). R. Semple (Lab.). J. J. Clark (R.). WELLINGTON SOUTH *R. McKeen (Lab.). M. R Luekia (R,). John Burns (U.). WELLINGTON SUBURBS. *R. A. Wright (R.). K. McLennan (U.). T. Brindle (Lab.).

WELLINGTON CENTRAL. Fraser (Lab.). , Mrs. M. Young (lnd. L.),_ Dunbar Sloane (R.). MID-CANTERBURY. , (New seat.). .T. Connolly (U.). D. Jones (R.)* Morgan Williams (Lab.). R. AY. Wightman (lnd.). - WESTLAND. *T. E. Y. Seddon (U.). J. O’Brien (Lab.). CENTRAL OTAGO.(Formerly AValcatipu.) R. Ritchie (R.). AV. A. Bodkin (U.). CLUTHA. *P Waite (R.). J. W. Fenton (Lab.). WALLACE ~A. Hamilton (R.). W. E. Taylor (U.). R. Howell (Lab.) AWAPuUA. *Sir Joseph AYard (U.). P. A. de la Perelle (U.). AY. C. Denham (Lab.). INVERCARGILL *Sir Joseph AVard (L.). \ iS. M. Macalister (lnd. R.Y MAORI ELECTION.

NORTHERN MAORI. *Tau Henare (R.). Hone Heke (lnd. R.). L-. AY. Parore (lnd.). P, Maika (U.). P. Paikea (Ratana Party.). Henare King (Treaty of Waitangi P.). Beti AY. Kingi (Treaty of AVaitangi Party). EASTERN MAORI. *Sir Apirana Ngata (U.) Pita Te Turnki Tamati Moko (lnd.). Tutaki Panapa Stewart (L.). WESTERN MA.OBI. *Sir M. Pomare (R..). Haami Tokourn (Ratana). SOUTHERN MAORI. *H. AY. Uru (R.). P. A. Macdonald. (L.). W 7. T. Pif.ama (Lid.) J. C. T Tikao (R.). E. T. Tirikatene (Ratana Party) T. M. Tanara (U.)., (