REGISTER ! REGISTER ! REGISTER !

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 99, 20 March 1875, Page 4

REGISTER ! REGISTER ! REGISTER !

We would remind our readers that the time within which they can register their claims to be placed upon the electoral rolls of the colony is fast drawing to a close. The 31st of the present month is the last day on which claims can be received. The vital importance to Catholics of being able to vote for the representatives of the people in Parliament must be felt by everyone, and we sincerely trust that those among our readers who have not yet sent in their claims will lose no more time in doing so. A general election must of necessity take place after the next session of the Assembly, and as many most important questions — chief among them the great question of education— are sure to occupy the attention of the new Parliament, any Catholic would be culpable in the highest degree if through laziness or carelessness he rendered himself incapable of influencing the decisions of the Legislature upon matters affecting 1 so seriously the interests of himself, his children, and his fellow-colonists.