INVERCARGILL ELECTIONS

Southland Times, Issue 16888, 13 November 1911, Page 5

INVERCARGILL ELECTIONS

THE POEX.IHG BOOTHS. Owing to the fact that the Supreme Court will bo sitting in Invercargill during election week the Courthouse will not be available as the chief polling booth. The Returning Officer (Mr W. B. Scandrett) has made arrangements to use the Town Council Chambers for this purpose. Mr Scandrett has recommended fifteen different polling booths. At the Town Hall there will be three divisions; at the Primitive Methodist school, Don street, two divisions ; at the South school two divisions : and probably one other booth. Leet street Wesleyan school : the Town Hall, A venal : the school, Gladstone ; the Town Hall, North Invercargill ; the old East Invercargill Council Chambers, Elies Road ; Mr D. G. Sloan’s now store. East Rond ; Mrs Newton’s house, Ythnn street ; Mrs Stuck’s house, Nith street ; Miss Woods’ house. Georgetown ; the Town Hall, South Invercargill ; Fairwoather’s Hall,' Scott street ; and the school, Clifton, will each have one polling room. There will be two deputy Returning Officers and one poll clerk at each division, so that forty deputy returning officers and twenty poll clerks will be required. He has engaged three ushers, one each for the Town Hall, the South School and the -Primitive Methodist school to regulate the entry of voters into the divisions. It was left to the discretion of the Returning Officer whether there should not be separate boxes for the two licensing issues, local restoration and national prohibition. Mr Scandrett has decided to have separate boxes In order to expedite the counting of the papers.