BUSY DAY FOR ELECTORS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1709, 28 March 1913, Page 4

BUSY DAY FOR ELECTORS.

FIVE rOLLS IN oft'E DAf,

■'Wednesday, April' SB, promises t<r6d ft, . trying oive firf nViiiWciffo'l electbi's'. Recent legislation' lifts inricte'd .th'at several' elections' shall .fa'fee 4 iila'ce oiv the oile 1 day— the fourth WednaJdiiy in ApHl—\yhicli' 'decision yftis arrived at chiefly .on flie Score ; of economy Mr connection': with. 1 the' mnchiAery work,entailed'. . .Whilst there is , no disptitviig that a considerable smb.limit be saved by<ari aggregation of polls in : the oiv6' da'j\ it can sCaftely be denied that the issu'bs are moi'e'. (if less confused by sucli an arrangehjenlv arid electors are warned to 4 be' on the f)ui' vive in'/order that' they. may not be deprived of any. of thciij privileges. Ejectors o'f MTe]liriKton Will have no fewer than five polls to attend to on April 30. These are:— M Election of Mayor. (2)' Election' of city councillors (15). (3) Election of members of tlio HnrJ bour. Board (4). (4) E'ectioft of members of the ■ Wellington Hbspifal a'iid Chdritubl©" Aid Board (11). (5) Saturday closing poll.- ' >>; Witli such a ri'iiinfor'of important elections to. attend to bn the one.day, electors will be kept fairly busy. The duties vfill be iitcrea'sed in the case of citizens of Wellington, tflio hiive' electoral lights as property .owners iii suburban boroughs, where the Mayor and councillors have also, .to be elected on the Same day. lii view of the multifarious duties imposed on citizens, on this day arid tlie length of time which each voter must necessarily tales to' mark each of the five papers, the riumb'ef 6f booths arid clerks will be Softsiderably increased.