MUNICIPAL ROLL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23026, 2 May 1938, Page 10

MUNICIPAL ROLL

WELLINGTON RECORD MANY ABSENT ELECTORS [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] . WELLINGTON, Sunday The Wellington municipal electors' supplementary roll contains 10,218 names. It is the largest supplementary roll ever prepared in' Wellington. With the 65,813 names on the main roll, 76,036 names appear on the completed roll, which is 8028 more names than were on the last roll, issued in connection with the 1935 elections. It is known by the rolls clerk and other .officers of the Wellington City Council that this roll is not by any means a "clean" one in the technical sense of the term "as applied to rolls of electors. Time and again people have pointed out to the officers that a person ivhose name appears on the roll lias been in Australia, England or, in some cases, America, for. years, and they wonder why the roll should be cluttered up with the names of people who cannot possibly exercise a vote. . Provision is made for the purging of a roll under the terms of the Electoral Act, which gives power to local bodies to purge the roll of residgntially qualified electors who have not recorded their votes at the last preceding election. i There is every reason to believe, it is stated, that if that were done in Wellington the roll would be reduced by some thousands of names.