LOCAL ELECTIONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22518, 8 September 1936, Page 11

LOCAL ELECTIONS

POLLING TO-MORROW TRANSPORT BOARD SEATS MOUNT ALBERT MAYORALTY Elections for the Mount Albert Mayoralty and for two seats on the Auckland Transport Board will be held to-morrow. There are seven candidates for the scats on the Transport Board, and two for the Mayoralty. The Labour candidate for the Mayoralty is Mr, W. 11. Perrott. The deputyMayor, Mr. H. A. Anderson, is the other candidate. Five candidates will contest the No. 2 constituency of the Transport Board, which includes the boroughs of Mount Eden, Mount Albert and Newmarket. They are the Labour candidate, Mr. P. C. Carr, the deputy-Mayor of Mount Albert, Mr. Anderson, a former deputychairman of the board, Mr. E. H, Potter, and Mr. Forbes Eadie and Mr. A. F. Madden, who were candidates at the Transport Board election last year.

Voting Rights

There are two.candidates for the No. 3 constituency, which is representative of the boroughs of One Tree Hill and Onehunga, the road districts of Mount Iloskill, Mount Wellington and Panmure, the Ellerslie town district, and the Mangerc riding of the Manukau County. They are the Labour candidate, Mr. L. C. McClintock, and Mr. A. A. Coatcs, a member of the Onehunga Borough Council. An important point in regard to the voting rights of electors in the Transport Board election is that every elector has one vote only, and having once exercised it, may not vote again, although he or she is an elector of more than one constituent district. This does not mean, however, that an elector whose name appears on the roll as trustee for a deceased person's estate or representative of a company, is to be confined to one vote. In such case he or she may—in addition to his or her personal vote —also exercise one vote as trustee, and again one vote as representative of the company. But. having once exercised a vote in any one capacity, he or she may not vote again in the same capacity in any other district. Defaulting Ratepayers As the result of legislation passed by Parliament last week, defaulting ratepayers will be eligible to vote at the Transport Board election to-morrow. Legislation was passed in 1932, and again in 1935, temporarily suspending the provisions which disqualify defaulting ratepayers from voting at local elections and polls. However, the legislation expired recently, and when it was brought to the notice of the Government that a large number of ratepayers in the Auckland district would be unreasonably disqualified as a result, a /urther extension of the concession was made.