MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15822, 20 January 1915, Page 9

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

MAYORS AND COUNCILLORS.

HOSPITAL AND HARBOUR

BOARDS.

PREPARATION OF ROLLS

The municipal and other local elections will take place on April 28. The four issues to be placed before the electors will be tlu election of Mayors and city or borough councillors, members of Harbour Boards and members of Hospital and Charitable Aid Boards.

The district electors' list, in each city or borough, is required to bo prepared on or before February 15. The roll must be open for inspection from February 16 to February 22. while any objections must bo lodged by March 1. The list of such objections must bn open for inspection to March 6. Each council is required to hold a. meeting in March not later than the 15th. to consider any such objections and to adopt the roll, which then comes into force on March 31.

A further opportunity for enrolment is afforded by means of the supplementary roll which will close on March 31, 28 days preceding tho day of election. This only applies in boroughs having a population of over 5000. In all other cases the supplementary rolls will not close, till April 14. The reason for giving extra time for tho consideration of claims for enrolment in the larger boroughs is due to the fact that claims often come in by hundreds in llk* case, at a- popular election.

Those entitled to be enrolled are persons possessing a ratepayer's qualification, those having a freeholder's qualification, or persons possessing a residential qualification. The latter qualification means th.it too applicant must be a British subject by birth or by naturalisation in New Zealand, and must have resided for one year in the Dominion, and fox three months continuously in the borough. In each case a husband and wife are entitled to bo enrolled under the same qualification.

The elections on April 28 will be the first occasion upon which the Mayors will be elected for a term of two years. Previously the Mayors have been elected for only one year, but for the future Mayors will bo elected for tho same period as the councils, namely, two years.