TO-MORROW'S VOTING.

Star (Christchurch), 21 January 1903, Page 2

TO-MORROW'S VOTING.

The information which we publish in another column should clear up a number of misconceptions which exist among those who intend to vote at tomorrow's polls. The Greater Christchurch pell and the tramway poll will be taken on separate rolls. Under the Municipal Corporations Act of 1900, under which the poll on the amalgamation Scheme will be taken, there are three qualifications to vote — freehold, rating and residential. An elector may claim the right to vote on reaching the age of twerity-bne. if he is a freeholder, he must own ah estate df the capital value of not less than £25 in the ward or borough io which the district electors' list relates. The rating qualification requires that the elector must 'be "the person whose name appears for the time being in the ' occupiers' ' column in the rate bdok in respect of aiiy ratable property in the ward ot individual borough to which the list re r lates." Under the residential qualification, the elector must have been the dcciipier for not lees than, three nidhths preceding' the~ day of the poll, as " tenant or suit-tenant, or as one of several tenants or sub-tenants, holding in joint tenancy or tenancy in common," the whole or any portion of any building in. the ward or bdrough at a. rent " which is at the fate of not less than £10 per yea* for the tenant or sub-tenant, or, as the case may be, for each of the several tenants or sub-tenants." It is further stipulated that if any tenant or sub-tenant sub-lets all or a portion of his premises, the rent he pays is td b'6 reduced; sb far as it affects his voting qualification, by the rent he . receives. The first ■ and second qualifications entitle an elector's name to a place on the roll automatically, but ih the event of the qualification being a residential one ail applijiafcidn for enrdlhtent must have preceded? th& closing of the roll. The poll for. the Tramway Board w)AI Jbe taken on the Tramway -, District Electoral Roll.-' As in th& case of the Greater Christchurch Roll, , Ithe • qualificatidns to vote ; apply' equally to males and females, and, in the case of a husband and wife, any qualification pos&esfepd By either belongs to both. With the exception of a'fevy mindr diffei'ehc'iss' iti the wbrdiifg" owing to the | tramway area, being divided' into districts, arid 1 save for a condition restricting the elector A6 ohe vote; ijb yill be seen that thdjj\ qualification clauses of the Tramway Roll are, to all intents and puipp'6JSei(, fiUfiil&r to.tnbse governing thS Amalgamation poll. . ■■■'•'.