SOUTHERN MAORI SEAT

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1918, Page 3

SOUTHERN MAORI S EAT

NAMES ON THE ROLL

The Southern Maori Electoral roll contains 892 names of male and female electors, with 105 upon a supplementary list. The list sets out the names with tribal extraction, addresses, and sex. The names are sometime partly or wholly in English or Maori. The tribes of both South and North Island—including the Waikatos —are represented probabily owing to intermarriages. On one pa'ge 46 females appear to the proportion of four males while on another there seem s nearly a balance of forty men to eight women. The roll N is peculiar in that the surnames are not classified; the classification under the respective letters of the alphabet are upon the baptismal or first names. Therefore the families are distributed throughout the list. All the Marys (Merc), are on one page, and there are twenty-eigh-. Henrys (Henare). There are nineteen, Teones, Tinis, Titis, Rubj r s, Daisys, and Susans occur frequently. Some of the names correspond with those of natives who have recently diet l Nine of the electors give the number of the House at which they reside. At last election there were thirty-three polling places; therefore, the election for a' Maori constituency is a pretty expensive one. For the 1914 election i 92 electors voted, Parata securing 434 votes. Erehana 196, and Rore 162.