POLL TO-MORROW

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23658, 17 May 1940, Page 8

POLL TO-MORROW

AUCKLAND WEST VOTING ARRANGEMENTS SIX CANDIDATES LISTED The by-election in Auckland West to fill tin? scat occupied by the late Prime Minister, Mr. Savage, will be held to-morow, the polling hours being from !) a.m. to 7 p.m. Although the voting papers will bear the names of six candidates two are not regarded as contestants. A resolution to withdraw the nomination ox Mr. J. 11. Kennedy, Dominion organiser of the .New Zealand Liberal Party, was carried by the party's executive on .May 2. but it was then legally impossible to remove his name from the papers. An independent candidate. INIr. K. Xaden, announced recently that he was taking no interest in the election and would be away from the electorate on polling day.

Candidates and Parties The candidates, in. alphabetical order, are: — Mr. Peter Carr i Labour), trarnwav motorman, of 31 Kclmariia Avenue, Heme Hay. Mr. Wilfred Henry Fortune (Independent), company manager, ot 318 Jervois Road, I'onsonby). Mr. Joseph Bond Kennedy (Liberal), farmer, of Cooper's Reach, Mangonui, North Auckland. Mr. Enoch Naden (Independent), barman, of 1 Spring Street, Ponsonby. Mr. Lawrence Pi ::kles (Independent Socialist), company director, of (i Claude Road. Epsom. Mr. Clement Cordon Watson (Communist), journalist, of 83 Grafton Road.

Ten polling plac< s will bo provided, as follows: — Leys Institute (principal); All Saints' schoolroom; St. Stephen's schoolroom, .Jorvois Road: Mission Hall. Herne Hay Road; Church of Christ Hall, I'onsonby Road; I'onsonby Manual Training School. Richmond Road; .Epiphany Ciurch Kail, Gundrv Street; Methodist Hall, corner ErankIi 11 Road and Wellington Street: St. Thomas' Hall, Union Street; Beresford Street School, entrance from Howe Street. A polling stuff of about 100 has been engaged. Special Vot ng Methods

Electors absent from the district may vote as absent voters at any post office in the Dominion without prior formalities. For sick or infirm persons in the district, or persons absent from the district who will be more than five miles from the nearest viost office on polling day, the postal voting procedure is available. In order to use this the elector must fill in a prescribed form of application for ;t postal vote-certifi-cate and postal ballot-paper and forward it to the returning officer, Mr. H. C. Butcher, from whom application forms are obtainable.

The need for posial voting will probably be reduced by the decision oi" the Minister of Supply, the Hon. I). G. Sullivan, to allow each candidate's committee 20 gallons of petrol for the purpose of taking infirm people to the poll.