1300 ADDRESSES UNKNOWN
ELECTORAL NOTICES UNCLAIMED CHECKING THE ROLLS FOR GENERAL ELECTION - Of 11,500 “residence” notices sent out by the registrar of electors for Invercargill (Mr A. McCarthy) no fewer than 1300 have been returned through the Post Office marked “Gone, no address.”
Since the notices were sent out several weeks ago the registrar and his staff have received 7000 replies showing the addresses of electors. There remain 3200 to be accounted for, and unless they are received within a few days the electors concerned will have their names struck off the roll. “It should be explained that any elector struck off the roll is liable to prosecution for not being on the roll—that is if he still is living in the district,” said Mr McCarthy yesterday. “Electors who have changed their addresses since last election and who have not received a notice are asked „to communicate with me immediately.” It was possible, he added, that of the 1300 notices returned unclaimed there would be a big number of the electors living in Invercargill but at some other address. The onus was on the elector to comply with the law and see that his or her name was on the roll.
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Southland Times, Issue 23540, 21 June 1938, Page 8
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