THE GENERAL ELECTION

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 9 April 1928, Page 7

THE GENERAL ELECTION

REVISION OF ROLLS

WORK TO START NEXT WEEKDepartmental machinery Sis now beh iiiiofl got ipady tor the general, election at the ends of the year. The first task to be undertaken, the revision of the rolls —rendered necessary by the alterations in the electoral boundaries last year—will commence next week, and in the meantime regulations are being: drafted in connection with the conduct of the new postal voting system. Heavy work is ahead of the Department' concerned. . . After the Representation Commission alters the boundaries of tlia electoral districts throughout the Dominion it is necessary to have new rolls formed: for the new" districts. The stage for tihe preparation of these rolls has now bpen reached, and registrars of electors have received instructions to commence the work as from April 10.. The period 1 for forming the new rolls is prescribed by tin? Governor-General, and will extend on tins occasion from April 10 until May 31. When the work has been completed. the Minister in charge of the Department is advised to that effect, and the formation is formally announced in the Gazette. After the gazetting of that notice the newly-formed electoral rolls become the rolls for the new electoral districts. In about June or July the Electoral Department will undertake the printing of these rolls, which will be distributed for public information. NO APPLICATION NECESSARY. Some of tihe electoral districts' were considerably altered as the result of the Commission’s recommendations, and it will now be the duty of thp registrars in such oases to notify the electors that the districts in which they were residing at the time of tihe last general .vjlcctk»r form part of the districts! recently constituted. The registrar who receives an addition to his electorate will notify the electors that tiheir names have been placed on the roll of the new district. An example is explanatory. Wellington East, which formpd part of the Wellington licensing dietr.ict, now becomes a 110-licon.se area 01 its own, owing to I*he fact tttrafc /it absorbs the greater part of a no-licensing district, consequent upon the alteration lin the electoral boundaries. The el.eeI tors residing in the Lyall Ray locality, ' which was previously in. Wellington 1 Suburbs, will receive a notice from the [.registrar of electors of Wellington SubI orbs informing them that the Lyall Bay : locality forms part of Wellington 1 Fast, and that their names will appear in the Wellington East electoral roll. The names will then be submitted to the registrar of electors for Wellington Fast roll. It is not necessary for electors to make fresh applications for registration. as the work of transferring ' the names is undertaken by the regis- . tears • but electors who have changed | their * addresses will be required to I notify the registrar, who will deal with [the matter in the usual way. POSTAL VOTING. The new x*>stui voting pro visions will apply for the first time at the forthcoming election- Several classes of voters are affected Postal voting will be available to those who will be absent from New Zealand on polling day, those who during the hours of polling will not be within five miles of the nearest polling place; those who throughj out the hours of polling will hr? trave'I ling in conditions that- preclude their 1 attendance, at- a booth ; and ill or infirm [voters. Pro virion is made also for maternity eases and for lighftliouse- ! keepers and their wives. The period 'within which electors can exercise their franchise under the postal voting sysi tern will be between the date of the ! issue of the writ and polling day. Regu- ! lations governing the conduct of postal | voting aire .being drafted 1 and will lie 'g a zetted.—‘ ‘Dominion. ’ ’