The £12,000, Loan

Waipawa Mail, Volume X, Issue 1020, 9 December 1886, Page 4

The £12,000, Loan

The following hints may be found useful on polling day : The county solicitor has given the opinion that ratepayers must vote in their ridings. The voting papers will have the resolution referring to the floating of the loan upon them, and underneath, two lines, as follows : I VOTE FOR THE ABOVE PROPOSALS I VOTE AGAINST THE ABOVE PROPOSALS. Ratepayers must strike out the line which they do not wish to vote for. All the votes will be sent into the county council offices, where they will be added up. If there is a majority in favor of the loan, made up of votes all over the county, then the proposals will be declared carried. There need not bo a majority in each district, so long as there is a majority all over the county. Thus it will be sees that it is highly necessary for all who are in favor of the proposals to record their votes, for they might be required to make up the aggregate majority when the totals are being counted out. Three fifths of those who actually record their votes is the majority which is required by the Act to cirry the vote. Those who are voters but abstain from voting do not count either way, as the majority is required only on those who actually vote. Next year, every absentee voter will count as if ho recorded against the proposals, the new Acts coming into force on January Ist 1887. It is calculated that it will be impossible for the Waipavva county to raise a loan under these proposals unless it is raised this year. Those who are ratepayers in different ridings may record their votes in as many polling booths as they have time to go to. Ratepayers having more than one vote may iccord them all, just ns if voting for a county councillor or road board warden. It is quite certain that all the money applied for will be granted, for the Colonial Treasurer has wired to the Member for the district to that effect.

If the voting were put off by any means to next year, it would be necessary for one half of the totul electors on the roll to record their votes ; then a majority would have to be in favor of the proposal's. It is well known that scarcely a single district could muster up half of the voters, as there are so many absentees, especially in regard to town allotments.

Polling takes place at the usual hours, viz. between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Ratepayers who are in favor of the loan should see that their friends are supplied with these rules.

Our last “ tip” is the most important of all : VOTE STRAIGHT NOR THE LOAN.