ELECTORAL ROLL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 138, 15 May 1925, Page 5

ELECTORAL ROLL.

WORK NEARING COMPLETION,

SECTIONS OF ROLL DELIVERED.

The work of issuing the provisional unnumbered electoral roll is now nearing completion and several of tho alphabetical sections have been returned to tho Registrar of Electors (Mr C. E. Foote) from the printers. The lettors A to J occupy 96 pages of close setting and when the roll is complete 10,604 names will be included therein. At the time of closing of the provisional roll there were 34 applications held over on account of various defects in the filling in of the applications, the faults being; slight technical breaches, such 13 insufficiency of address, for care of Post Office, etc., is not accepted, while there were instances lof the * declaration being returned unsigned or the witness being ineligible to sign in that capacity. One applicant, in filling in his occupation, wrote “at present stumping,” while another struck out the line stating that she was not under the age of 21, leaving untouched the one to the effect that she was under 21 years of age. The work of rectifying these errors is naturally entailing upon the Registrar and his staff extra labour, besides incurring tho loss of valuable time. No less than 74 applications have been received since the closing of the roll, 13 of which* are _still under action, the balance having been approved. Every source is being searched with a view to revealing electors who have not fulfilled their obligations, and the recently compiled borough noil has been the means of swelling the total. It is the opinion of the registrar that there is still a large number of local and district residents who have not fulfilled their obligations and theso are being gradually unearthed. The task of keeping trace on removals from the town, whose duty it is to notify their change of address, or to compel new arrivals to register at tho completion of their three months’ residence at their new centre is, explained Mr Foote, no small one fti itself.