PURGING OF ROLLS.
DEFECT IN THE LAW.
A CITY DIFFICULTY.
A curious anomaly in tho municipal electoral regulations, which date from 1921, was pointed out by the city returning officer, Mr. P. F. Notley, in a report to the City Council last evening. Mr. Notley said the regulations gave no power, when a new roll was compiled, to omit tho names of people on the "residential" qualification who had failed to vote at the preceding election. Tho result was that these eloctors ordinarily remained on for ever, unless proof could be obtained that they had died or gone to live outside the city. Mr. Notley said he had checked the lint with tho rolls of the 13 Parliamentary electorates in and near tho city and had sent postcards to all city residential electors who were shown as residing outside the boundary. As a result, 4645 names of persons who failed to reply had been struck off tho roll. Seventy-eight pages, costing £lO7 to print, would be saved thereby. Mr. Notley- added that all efforts to have the anomaly rectified had been in vain.
It was decided to take the matter up with the Minister of Internal Affairs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21223, 1 July 1932, Page 10
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197PURGING OF ROLLS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21223, 1 July 1932, Page 10
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