POLLING PLACES

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1935, Page 5

POLLING PLACES

HELP FOR THE BACKBLOCKS. GOVERNMENT’S ARRANGEMENTS. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Mr. Barnard asked a question in the House of Representatives recently relating to the provision of polling booths for relief workers in camps and for employees at sheep stations, sawmills and other remote places. . In reply Mr. G. W. Forbes said that in cases where relief camps are some distance from the polling place the returning officers are arranging for a polling place at the camp for the convenience of voters. In the case of sheep stations and other isolated localities the returning officers have been supplied with the necessary forms to be sent on application to persons who are desirous of voting by post. The postal voting system, however, cannot be used at a sheep station where a polling place is established unless voters are ill or infirm. As there are only a very few isolated cases of this. kind it is not proposed to alter the existing arrangements. Everything will be done in accordance with the requirements of the act to help voters who are unable to proceed to the polling place.