ERRORS IN ROLLS

Matamata Record, Volume III, Issue 154, 16 October 1919, Page 4

ERRORS IN ROLLS

Te Poi and Okoroire Settlers Concerned.

Therollsof Rotorua and Tau~T ranga electorates contain many inaccuracies, as Parliamentary candidates and campaign organi- ' sers have discovered. Mr Val Atkinson, organiser for the Licensed Victuallers’ Association, stated that he had found that the Te Poi residents did not know whether they were in the Tauranga or the Rotorua electorate. The Rotorua electorate embraced parts of nine counties. Thirty people at Te Poi were not on the roll.

Mr Malcolm Larney, a candidate for the Rotorua seat, has had a similar experience. Okoroire Springs, he found, was 10 miles within the Rotorua electorate boundary, but the residents there were not on the Rotorua roll. Hinuera popt-cfSce and Hinuera Valloy in the Rotorua electorate, but the people there were not on the roll. The Registrar of Electors at Rotorua had visited the Te Poi district and had transferred the names of 200 people. Asked where the remedy for these errors lay, the gentlemen referred to said it wasn’t their business to place the names of people on the roll- It was the Government’s duty to see to that. Advice had been received from Wellington that the elections will be held in the first or second week in December. Mr Larney suggests that the Government should display maps of electorates in every post-office in the country. The people could . then satisfy themselves as to which electorate they were in and in Ice sure that their names were or, the roil of the right electorate. Tue uuty iaitiJy tiuvuived upon the individual voter, he said.