COMING ELECTIONS
PREPARING THE ROLLS. THOSE QUALIFIED TO VOTE. Persons qualified to vote are advised to see that their names are on the municipal roll, which may be inspected at the municipal offices. The main roll to be used in connexion with the election of Mayor and Councillors on April 27th will close on January 31st, 1027. The staff of the Christclmrch Drainage Board is also engaged in the compilation of the roil for the forthcoming election of members.
For both the Drainage Soard and City Council elections, the qualifications for electors are the same. Ratepayers and freeholders are automatically entered on the electoral rolls through the District Valuation Roll, and other persons must make application for enrolment if they wisli to vote. All persons over the age of 21 years, who are British subjects by birth or naturalisation, and who have lived in New Zealand for one year and in the City for three months, are entitled to be enrolled, and, in addition, there is a qualification which enables persons who live in outside districts, but own property in the area to which the election applies, to vote also. The City Council is employing canvassers to call upon who were previously enrolled, to ascertain whether they are still at the same address. Where persons have changed their address, a card is sent to the old address, asking them to furnish the new one, so that their names can be reinstated on the roll, and in this respect the City Council relies on the Post Office to readdress the cards. The main difficulty in the compilation of the Drainage Board's electors' roll is that the district is subdivided into 12 sub-districts, each of which is to have a representative on the new Board. The Valuation Roll gives the names of ratepayers for each sub-dis-trict, but all other persons who wish to vote must make claims for enrolment.
The cost of eompilation of the Drainage Board roll will be between £7OO and £BOO, of which about £6OO will be expended, in printing alone.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18888, 31 December 1926, Page 14
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342COMING ELECTIONS Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18888, 31 December 1926, Page 14
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