MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1933, Page 7

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

ELECTORS TO VOTE TO-DAY LIST OF THE CANDIDATES. THIRTY-FOUR MEN OFFERING. Electors in the New Plymouth borough will register their votes to-day. Thirtyfour candidates are offering for the various positions, there being two for the mayoralty, 17 for the Borough Council, five for the Harbour Board and 10 for the Hospital Board. According to the returning officer (Mr. R. Day) all arrangements for the elections have been completed and there are additional polling booths at the Presbyterian Hall, Westown and the Harbour Board offices, Moturoa. The booth that has previously been used at Standish Hill has been replaced by one in the hospital grounds near the board’s offices. As the results become known in the evening they will be posted outside the principal booth at Whiteley Hall and an improved system of displaying the figures is being adopted. Altogether there are 13 polling booths. The list of candidates, with sitting members marked with an asterisk, is:— MAYORALTY. GILMOUR, Everard Robert Cranston. ♦GRIFFITHS, Horace Victor Samuel. BOROUGH COUNCIL. Eight Required. *AMOORE, Frank William G. ♦ANDERSON, Thomas Frank. BARTHOLOMEW, Percy J. BROWN, Albert Oscar. ♦BROWN, Joseph. ♦DARBY, James Whittington. FLOOD, Sidney. GRAYLING, Francis Stanley. ♦HILL, Frederick John. HUSE, Otto. JEMISON, John. LAWRENCE, Henry William. MARTIN, William Percy. SMITH, Stanley John. ♦STAINTON, Percy Vernon Esmond. SUTTON, Leverson. THORNE, BENJAMIN. HOSPITAL BOARD. Four Required. ♦BROWN, Joseph. DAVIES, Ernest Bertram. ♦DEARE, Robert James. DUFF, Valentine. FLOOD, Sidney. ♦GILMOUR, Everard Robert Cranston. HILL, Frederick John. HORNE, William Alfred. JEMISON, John. STAINTON, Percy Vernon Esmond. HARBOUR BOARD. Two Required. ♦BELLRINGER, Charlie Emanuel♦HOLM, John Herman Hall. FLOOD, Sidney. McLEOD, James.

THORNE, Benjamin. Electors may vote for less than the number required if they so’desire. Some misunderstanding exists concerning the right to vote by declaration, a right which is provided only to rectify mistakes which might have occurred in the compilation of the rolls. The local Elections and Polls Act, Sec. 12, provides .that where a person finds that his name is not on the roll he’ may vote on making a declaration to the effect that lie was entitled by virtue of a proper qualification (to be stated) to have his name entered on the roll and that he had reasonable cause to believe that his name was entered on such roll. Every person who knowingly and wilfully makes a false statement in any declaration under this section shall be liable to a fine of £5O. After the close of the poll the declaration, with the relative voting papers, shall be forwarded to the returning officer for verification, and in no case shall the votes be counted unless the Returning Officer is satisfied that the voter Was qualified to be enrolled, that the local authority or the proper officer thereof had knowledge of the voter’s qualification, and that his name was inadvertently omitted from the roll. Provision is made for corporations and companies to vote by appointing a representative to vote on their behalf. The representative, however, must be provided with a written authority to take to the booth. Similar provision applies when two or more people who are joint owners of property may appoint one of their number as their representative.