DAIRY BOARD POLL

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 108, 31 January 1935, Page 10

DAIRY BOARD POLL

4> Confusion Over Procedure POSITION AS TO VOTING Some confusion appears to exist among the directorates of a number of dairy factories regarding the operation of the recently gazetted regulations setting out the procedure for the election of three representatives of dairy companies to the New Zealand Dairy Board under the Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act. ifhe position is that the rolls for the three wards close to-day, these rolls having been compiled by the returning officer from the register of the owners of manufacturing dairies kept.by the Department of Agriculture. The impression appears to exist that it is ■ necessary for companies to appoint tbeir voting representatives by to-day. That is not so, for the regulations definitely state that the name of a voting representative may be entered in the roll at any time whether 1 before or after the closing of the roll. It should be pointed out, however,, that a voting representative is the only person authorised to make a nomination. As the nominations of candidates for election to the board close on February 18, those companies wishing to exercise* the right of nomination will have to see that their voting representatives are appointed in sufficient time to allow of the completion of the nomination paper, and its dispatch to the returning officer so as to reach him before the hour fixed for the closing of nominations.