THE MAYORALTY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6491, 10 April 1908, Page 6

THE MAYORALTY

VOTERS’ QUALIFICATIONS.

DETAILS OF THOSE WHO MAY REGISTER.

Doubt exists among many people as to what qualifications a person has to possess to enable him to vote at the forthcoming election. The position is briefly stated below. There are three classes of qualifications for the District Electors' Rollfreehold, rating and residential. In connection with the first’ a person, before he or she is entitled to vote, must be the beneficial and duly registered owner of a freehold estate in land of the capital value of not less than .£25 in the ward or undivided borough in which he or she desires to vote. It does not matter whether the land is subject to encumbrance or whether any other person is the occupier of it or an- part of it under any tenancy. With -respect to a rating qualification, the elector's name must appear for the time, being in the "'occupier" column in the valuation roll supplied -by the Government in respect of any rateable property in a ward or undivided borough to which the list relates. . . . The residential qualification is of a somewhat more complex nature. In this connection it is essential that a person is, and has for at least three months immediately preceding the election, been in occupation as tenant or sub-tenant, or as one of several tenants or sub-tenants, holding In joint tenancy or tenancy in common the whole or any portion of any house, warehouse. office, shop or other building in the district to which the election relates. The rent of the tenancy must be at the rate of not less than <£lo per year for the tenant or sub-tenant. It must be made distinctly clear, however, that where any tenant or tenants, sub-tenant or sub-tenants, sublet the whole or any portion of his or their premises, the rent payable by him or them shall be deemed reduced by the rent payable to him or them by the sub-tenant or sub-tenants. In the case of husband and wife, any qualification possessed bv either of them is regarded as possessed by each of them. In case the property in respect to which the freehold or rating qualmcation is possessed is situate partly m one ward and partly in another of the some borough.' such property shall be considered to be situate wholly within the ward in which the greater .part thereof Is situated, and the qualification possessed shall appertain to such ward. . . _ The date for the closing of nominatmns has not yet been fixed by the returning officer. - but will be announced in the course of the next two or three days. The supplementary roll closes on the 15th inst.. and people desirous of getting their names rdaced thereon should mate application at least not later than the afternoon of the day mentioned.

A« part of the district of Northland, taken ont of the borough of Karon b proclamation dated April 2nd, is non within the city area, it will-be neocesarj for the residents of the locality can oerncd, and also, of thMt portion of r’ori previously included in tn© Clt y*, make application to be i^st supplementary, roil before the 15th mst. for the Mayoral election. . ■ Mr Hlslop -will address a at the Victoria Hall, Adelaide road, at 8 o’clock to-night. His Newtown, Wellmgton Ehst and Berhampore committee® Si each meet to-night at 7.30 o’clock Mr Dalrymple, his general secretary. is located in King’s Chambers, where the roll may be seen and information obtSMrdAitken roet his Newtown Committee yesterday at the VV .0.1.11. rooms. Constable street, and his Berhampore committee at Palm Grove Hall., His Brooklyn committee also met m true Baptist Chnroh. * ■ '