FAILURE TO ENROL

Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1778, 3 July 1926, Page 4

FAILURE TO ENROL

WARNING TO ELECTORS

(By Telegraph. Press Association.! CHRISTCHURCH, This Day

Failure to make application to the Registrar of Electors for enrolment, on a district electoral roll, after transfer from one district to another, renders a person guilty. For this negligence one is liable to prosecution under the Legislature Act. After thrtee months’ residence in a new district, an elector becomes qualified for enrolment as an elector of that district, and notice to this effect is sent to him at his new address front the Registrar’s office. He is allowed a further four months in which to apply for enrolment and on expiry of that time becomes liable to prosecution. These’ facts Avere emphasised by a Avarning case in the Magistrates’ Court before Mr H. A. Young, S.M., yesterday. W(m. G. Eldred, the defendant, did not appear. The Registrar of Electors of Christchurch, Mr J. J. McHague, said he received advice from the Registrar of the Hurunui district on May 28th, 1925, that defendant had transferred from Parnassus to Christchurch. After three or four months Avitness sent defendant a notice to enrol, but he did not do so. Witness sent him another notice stamped “Final Notice” ten months after his arrival in 'Christchurch, and there Avas no response to that. Them he stent a registered notice with a form for acknoAvledgment. There Avas still no response so information Avas laid, on a receiving summons. Defendant enrolled, but it Avas too late to stop the) case. It Avas brought as a Avarning to others. Defendant Avas convicted and ordered' to pay costs.