The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, MARCH 23 1914. THE BURGESS ROLLS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 78, 23 March 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, MARCH 23 1914. THE BURGESS ROLLS.

No very great interest is being evinced at present in the forthcoming Mayoral election so far as Stratfce Borough is concerned, and it is even possible there may be no corniest. However, in view of possibilities, it is the duty of those entitled tc vote to register. Under the residential qualification, which is required by the Act, every person is deemed to possess a residential qualification within a borough if he has resided for one year in New Zealand, and hap resided in the borough or in the ward of r. divided borough during t]m> three months then last past, and is a British subject, either by birth or •naturalisation in New Zealand, or has been for at least three mouths last past a residential occupant within such borough as a tenant of a tenement the rental of which is not less than £lO per annum, or as a sub-tenant or joint tenant of a tenement the rental of 'which is at the rate of not less than £lO per year for each' of the several sub-tenants or joint tenants. The rolls close fourteen days before the date of the election, which has been fixed for .the 29th of April. Any person who makes a false claim for enrolment is liable to a fine of £5. It will be thus noted that the franchise ifs even wider than for Parlia- ' mentary elections.