WELLINGTON ROLLS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2315, 24 November 1914, Page 7

WELLINGTON ROLLS

CLEAN AND COMPLETE. The following table shows the .total number of eleotors enrolled in the City and suburbs electorates this year and in 1911: — 1914. 1911. Wellington North ..... 9,475 10,657 Wellington East .....; 9,571 10,709 Wellington South', 9,023 9,689 Wellington Central ... 9,565 11,431 ,Wellington Suburbs ... 7,936 7,927 •The numbers oil -tho supplementary rolls' (included in the above totals) are: —North, 2910; East, 2910; South/ 2261: Central/' 3600 ; Suburbs, 2000. It will be noticed that the North and East supplementary rolls contain the same number of names. Except in the case of Wellington Suburbs, where population is increasing, the roll totals for this year, are smaller than those of 1911, but it haa to be remembered, that there was no ponging of the rolls in 1911, with the result that they were in that year, .heavily, overloaded. The whole of the names on the current rolls have been verified since August last, and the officials of the Electoral Department ate confident that tie rolls are the cleanest, that ■have ever been • compiled in the history of the Dominion. It is claimed also that the rolls are as complete as is humanly possible. There iB always a percentage of eleotors who neglect, the duty of enrolment, but every effort has been put forth to . make the rolls clean and cpmplete. Naturally the Electoral Department has been working at high pressure "of late; ; Some idea of the work may 1 be gained from the fact that the whole of the names on tho heavy supplementary roll in Wellington Central (numbering 3600) have been verified since October 7.

People whose namea appear on the rolls of 1911 and who voted in that year are entitled to vote, even if their names have been omitted from the current rolls, on making a declaration before the returning officer on eleotion day. • VOTING 'AT TRENTHAM. Members of the Expeditioaiy Force now in camp at Trentham will vote in the Parliamentary election and licensing poll on Tuesday next, December 1. Nominations close on the previous day, so that the names of Parliamentary candidates will bo available and the members of the Force will vote for candidates in their respective districts. Blank ballot papers will be supplied, •upon which the deputies will inscribe the names of the districts and those of candidates. When the voter haa marked his voting-paper it will bo sealed up in an envelope addressed to the returning officer of tho disfWct for which .it is destined and forwarded to that official. ' The members of the Maori contingent in camp at Auckland will vote on the day ■of the ordinary Maoril elections, December 11.