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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 210, 9 October 1914, Page 6

The member for Avon, who is alleged to have made the brilliant suggestion that a number of the unemployed should be engaged to put names on the electoral rolls, is still pestering Mr Fisher with suggestions that the postal officials have not done the work properly. Members of Parliament, and a great many others, ineluding some registrars, do not make sufficient alloAvance for the disinclination of many persons qualified as electors to be bothered about enrolling or taking any part in elections. The fact that these people are left off the roll is no reflection on the systein employed. Enquiries go to show that the postal officers have done their work efficiently and well, but they cannot compel persons to enrol against their will. The votes of these apathetic individuals are quite worthless any way, and it is unfortunate that when they are badgered . into, enrolling and conveyed to the polling booth in a motor ear, their r vote should perhaps neutralise that of an earnest and hardworking member of the community, who makes an honest effort to do his duty as an elector. There is really no reason why the Government should take any steps whatever to enrol electors. Its duty should end with purging the rolls of the names of deceased persons, and others who have becoine disqualified. To go to a lot of expense in enrolling persons who are too lazy to do it for themselves'is a sinful waste of public money.