ELECTION YEAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23996, 20 June 1941, Page 6

ELECTION YEAR

USUAL PEEPARATTONS

PURGING THE ROLLS

BIG TASK IN PROGRESS

While Government leaders have declined so far to state whether or not the general election scheduled for this year will be held, the electoral office in Auckland is busy with the usual preliminaries involved in election jcar. io amending and purging of the ro s is in progress, and organisation is proceeding as for a general election. Inquiry forms seeking information on dmngos of address are being sent to every person on the roll in the Auckland metropolitan area, thero_ being over 100,000 people enrolled in tnc nine electorates included. As rephes c „,„o in, a special staff at tho cteto al office takes tho necessary _ action, and tho rolls are gradually being amende and purged, in accordance with the information being assembled, it is - pected that this part of the work wi be completed about the middle of next month. . , Printing of the general rolls is not begun until advice has been received from the chief electoral officer in Wellington that the rolls have closed. Subsequently a supplementary roll is prepared and printed. As far as is at present known m Auckland, members of the armed forces overseas and in New Zealand who are qualified to vote will be able to do so, according to their place of residence before joining the services. _ I)f * tal '™ advice has not yet been received, but it is expected that the arrangements made will be similar to those adopted in the case of the Waipawa by-election last year. , Although no date has yet been fixed fo- the Waitemata by-election, made necessary by the death in action of the sitting member, Captain W. J. Lyon, a supplementary roll is being prepared. Preliminary arrangements for pollingplaces are also in hand.