The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1914.. THE CLOSING OF THE ROLLS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 66, 13 November 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1914.. THE CLOSING OF THE ROLLS.

The time for finally'closing the elec-: toral rolls is now drawing near, and in all probability, Monday next, \ovember 16th, will be the last day on which registration may be effected in time to qualify as a voter at the forthcoming general election of members of the House of Representatives. It may bo of interest to recall just now the procedure which the law demands in a general election in. this country, for though every three years we go through such a proceeding, there are always many new vbters, while the maturer ones who have frequently helped to swell a majority, are sometimes possessed of short memories. In the first place, within seven days of the dissolution of Parliament, the Governor of the Dominion must direct the Clerk of Writs to proceed with the elections. The Clerk of Writs, upon receipt of this warrant, must, within three days, cause writs to he issued to the local returning officers—that is to say, tne writs must ho issued within ten days of the dissolution of Parliament. These election writ are returnable within twenty-eight days, but as a full week is required to complete the figures, the election must be held within three weeks of the issue of the writs. The enrolment of electors ceases automatically at 6 p.m. of the day on which the writ is issued, which means that dilatory electors have that amount of grace in which to assure themselves of enrolment. The date has not been officially announced, but it is freely stated in well-informed quarters that Thursday, Dece nber 10th will bo chosen. As the Second Ballot has been abolished, tin's date will permit the election turmoil to he got over before Christmas preparations take place. As regards the nomination of candidates, nomination paper's must be signed by not loss than two electors of the district, and they must reach the returning officer not later than noon of the tenth day before the day appointed for) the poll. No elector may nominate more than one candidate, and the nominations and polling places must bo duly advertised. With a candidate’s nomination papers a deposit of' £lO has to be made, and in the event of the total number of votes received by any candidate being Vfs than one-fourth the number received by the successful candidate, the de-posji-us forfeited to the Consolidated Fund,

WAR AND V/ORK

Writing in the Contemporary on “Wai, Credit, business,” Mr Theodoie Cooks Taylor, M.P., head of a big vvooilvi manufacturing firm, and an advocate ot profit-sharing and labour co-partner-ship, says that perhaps the most remarkable of all the effects of the war) has been the quiet and unchallenged assumption of autocratic powers and unlimited liabilities by the British Government. Vast as is the economic evil of great strikes, he says, it is nothing compared with the economic evil of this war. Imagine 8,000,000 r men on strike in Central Europe, and riots, with violence and murder on the largest scale ever known; then compare that with what is going on in Belgium, Germany, France, Austria, Russia, Servia, and Montenegro, and on the high seas. The strike would be insignificant in comparison. The moment war was declared , between Great Britain and Germany hundreds of merchants and manufacturers realised that for the goods they had recently sent to Germany and Austria they might never get paid. For that reason those to whom they themselves owed money would give them no further ci edit. Orders for goods, not only for Germany and Austria, but for other countries also, were cancelled, the production of goods apd payment of workpeople’s wages were summarily stopped, and every industry proximately or ultimately dependent upon such work-people as customers was at once adversely affected. “If onr manufacturers and work-people would only tyork together with the same patriotism to .capture the world’s markets that they show in fighting their enemies on the! field of battle, onr financial position would soon be stronger. We cannot avoid the continuance of the organised hostility to each other of employer and employed. Employers must share their profits with their workpeople, and the workers must throw away that obsolete and suicidal weapon—restriction of output.”