LICENSING POLL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 138, 6 March 1919, Page 7

LICENSING POLL

ROLL TO CLOSE TO-DAY.

At 6 p.m. to-day the supplementary rolls for the licensing poll of April <10 will close at the offices of district registrars. Posted claims must reach those offices by 6 p.m. to enable the applicants to qualify for registration. There is a great rush of procrastinates, with the usual result that the registrars' staffs are working very- late-even, to 1 a.m.—in coping with the belated claims. Every care is' being taken to send out notices to persons whoso claims have boen marked "informal," so that they may have another opportunity to fill iu a form correctly. Applicants are advised to read the directions very carefully, for a mistake now will spoil this last chance of enrolment It.has been explained repeatedly than a new clause in the Act has permitted; objections to be lodged 1 against the retention on the rolls of names of persona who have changed their .residence, within, an electorate. The pereons concerned have received official notice of snch ob- 1 jections, and when;they nave failed to appeal within the prescribed period their names have bean, struck off the roll. Persons who do not feel sure that they are on the roll are advised to the trouble to peruse tho latest. available rolls, which can be soen at all Post Offices and electoral offices.

A opecial warning is given to people Against feeling sure of enrolment merely because they hare left ■ filled-in forms with canvassers in the streets or door-to-door canvassers. It is possible that some of these canvassers may not deliver all such forms to registrars' offices. There is evidence that numbers of such forma have gone.astray. ' Heavy penalties are' provided in the Act for-canvassers convicted on a charge of failing to deliver such forms to registrars, but it is not easy to obtain evidence sufficient for a conviction.