"HOT AND HEAVY."

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1046, 8 February 1911, Page 5

"HOT AND HEAVY."

4 - i COMPILING THE ILOLL. "Hot and heavy" were the words jt . which clerks engaged at the' Town Hall, ' in the work of roll compilation, described their activities when questioned yesterday by a Dominion" reporter. The office • in -which the work is being carried on . 'i presents a scene of active bustle. Yesterday this was accentuated by the fact i that carpenters were, erecting additional . S pigeon-holes to accommodate the rapidly . increasing accumulation of Enrolment , cards. An extra clerk was engaged on ; Monday, so that Mr. Ames now has a staff of six men working under him; upon tho roll, and two or three addi- 1 tional clerks are to be engaged to-day. Since enrolment commenced tho num- ; ber of . claims handed in each day . has # ] steadily increased. Electors aro now be- i ing enrolled at an average rate of three!- '■ or four hundred per day. On Monday • the number of enrolments jumped to over 500, a result attributable no doubt inactivity displayed at church doors on.! i the previous day. About four thousand ncmes are now in ; hand to be embodied in the supplementary rolls,'so thatwith the' 16,714 > names i contained in the new main roll, a total: ' number of about 21,000 electors has been | enrolled. It is already evident that the i Greater Wellington roll when it is com-" pleted will be .of record dimensions. , A big majority of the applications handed in thus far are looked upon as a result of organised effort by the forces of • Labour. Roman Catholic enrolment'", is j also said to be mounting steadily, and a number of shopkeepers have apparent- ; ly engaged in ah organising campaign aa their own account. 11 NiP fewer than 250' duplications have been ■ detected by the officials in check-' ing applications handed in within the last three days. This doos not iuvolre any attempt at fraud. It means simply that electors changing their residence have applied.for enrolment in ignorance of the fact that their names or'* the roll asainst former addresses. '