ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143646, 14 November 1911, Page 2

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

■‘lnquisitive.”—Section 131, Lcgislatu«c Act, 1908, reads as follows:—At the request of any voter who is blind or is unahlo to read or write, the deputy returning officer shall, together with any scrutineers (not exceeding two) who may be present, retire with him into the inner compartment and them mark the ballot paper according m the instruction of the voter; and such deputy returning officer shall sign his own name at tho foot thereof, and. if so required by the voter, shall allow a scrutineer or scrutineers to inspect such ballot paper before depositing it in tho ballot box. Section .1-6 states tluft the only person who shall speak to a voter in the polling booth is the deputy returning officer.