APPLICATIONS TO GET ON THE ELECTORAL ROLLS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5419, 31 March 1879, Page 5

APPLICATIONS TO GET ON THE ELECTORAL ROLLS.

Fbom inquiry we learn that the number of new applications to be placed on the electoral rolia for the General Assembly,—districts of Auckland—City East, West, .rarnel], .Newton, Waifcemata, Eden, and Onehuuga, will amount to over 2000 names, i i C organisation of the committee, at iNo. 11, Insurance Buildings, will, it is stated, lodfio dunog to-day, at the Auckland and Uneliuoga registration offices, over SOO fresh claims for the several districts .mentioned, lu is stated that Mr. Barton, of Wyndbamstreet, "with others, have been intercstiug themselves in election registration, and thai their action will be the means of largely increasing the voting power in the Fmuklin i l ' 3triCt ' Up to Saturday afternoon about <00 applications to be placed on the registers l were lodged with Mr. Gudgeon, the City : and Suburban Registration Officer, and this i number will, no doubt, be largely anded to during to-day. We have not heard whether i any combined action has been taken in the matter of forwarding additional applications to be placed on the roils for Waipa, Waikato, Rodney, Marsden, aud the East Coast, but we believe we are not far under the estimate when we state that the increase of voters on the General Assembly rolls for the Provincial District of Auckland, when completed and availabh, will amount to live thousand. The action taken in , the matter of lodging applications to be , placed on the di' r ercnt electorates during the ' past three mouths jy, no doubt, largely attributable to the prospect of a general election all over the colony, but we have it from a well-iriformed Wellington correspondent that, in his opinion, there is no prospect of the Ministry having to go to the country during the present year. Indeed, he goes further, aud states, « 4 that it is idle to speculate upon a dissolution of the present Parliament until the Assembly parses an amended or new .Representation Act, when representation will be fixed upon something like the population from the lfl*t census, and when some (if not all) of the pocket boroughs will be wholly eliminated from the Statute Book, and amal» garaated into other electoral districts which will be created.