SUPPLEMENTARY ROLL
61,851 ELECTORS IN WELLINGTON. HUGE INCREASE SINCE 1922. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, October 22. Names on the supplementary electoral roll which closed last Thursday bring the total for the five electorates in Wellington City area up to 61,851 as compared with 55,369 at last general election in 1922. This increase of 6,484 electors in three years seems conclusive proof of efficiency of the new law which makes enrolment compulsory. If the percentage of electors who go to the booths on polling day is maintained, a record vote will be cast on November 4. Supplementary rolls contain the following additional numbers of registered voters in the electorates: Wellington North, 1545; Wellington South, 888; Wellington Central, 1146; Wellington East, 1241; Wellington Suburbs, 1263. Comparisons in the total enrolments for 1922 and 1925 are afforded by the following table; —
Supplementary figures for the Hutt electorate are not yet available, but the general roll contains 11,036 names, as against 9,847 on the main roll and two supplementaries in 1922.
1922 1925 Wellington North .. . 11,749 12,753 Wellington South .. .. 10,773 11,613 Wellington Central .. .. 10,553 10,820 Wellington East .. 11,500 12,855 Wellington Suburbs ., .. 10,792 13,810 Totals .. .. .. 55,367 61,851
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Southland Times, Issue 19690, 24 October 1925, Page 12
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193SUPPLEMENTARY ROLL Southland Times, Issue 19690, 24 October 1925, Page 12
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