COMING ELECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 171, 15 April 1921, Page 6

COMING ELECTIONS

100 BOOTHS TO EMPLOY 250 PEOPLE A COSTLY BUSINESS The municipal elections whioh are to take place on Wednesday, April 27, will entail a good deal of work as far as the Chief Returning Officer (Mr. James Amos) is concerned. With the electoral roll out of the way, he has to make all the 'arrangements for taking the ballot. On the present occasion the Chief Returning Officer’s field of activity has been considerably enlarged by the amalgamation with the city since the lass election of Karori and Miramar. Polling places have to be secured in suitable buildings nearest the most populated parts of the suburbs, and also in the city—both in the business and residential areas.

'On this occasion there will be no fewer than 39 polling places—the largest number on record —with 100 booths. As two clerks are located in each booth, this will mean the employment of 200 clerks and about 50 doorkeepers. This will entail a very considerable cost to the city. It not only means fees for the clerks and door-keepers, but there is the rant of a majority of the polling places, the heavy cost of the compilation nnd printing of the rolls, the cost of printing the fouf ballot papers, and advertisements, etc. The chief returning officer has fixed on the following sites for polling places:— Alexandra Hall, Abel-Smiflh Street. Aro Street Mission Hall. Bethune’s Auction Room, Brandon Street.

Congregational Schoolroom, Cambridge Terrtcc? Harcourt’s Auction Koom, Panama Street. Baptist Churchroom, Vivian Street. Methodist Schoolroom, Waitoa Road, HataijAi. St. Hilda’s Churchroom, Island Bay. Old Karori Borough Councilu’s Offices. Mailman's Store, Karori. Kearney’s Tea Rooms, Tinakori Road. Kelburn Tea Kiosk. Presbyterian Churchroom, Raroa Road. Kelburn. Metiiodist Room, Kaiwarra. Khandallah Public Hall. All Saints’ Churchroom, Kilbirnie. Church of Chrisfl, Kilbirnie. — Hodgson and Carver’s Auction Room, Lambton Quay. Rowell’s Tea. Rooms, Lyall Bay. Churchroom, Freyberg Street, Lyall Bay. Masonic Hall, Adelaide Road. Fire Brigade Station, Miramar. Newtown Library, Riddiford Street. . Methodist Schoolroom, Ngaio. Northland Churchroom. Oddfellows’ Hall, Lambton Quay. Ohiro Road Baptist Schoolroom, Brooklyn. Roseneath School. St. Peter’s Schoolroom, Ghuznee StreetSt. Paul’s Schoolroom, Tinakori Road. St. Thomas’s Schoolroom, Newtown. Waiting Room, Wharf (Customhouse Quay). Churchroom at Waaestown. Worsen Bay Swimming Club’s Shed, Worsen Bay. Anglican Ch'urchroom, Washington Avenue, Brooklyn. Masonic Hall, Seatoun. Sydney Street Gymnasium. Town Hall, Lower Cuba Street. Victoria Hall, Adelaide Road.