PARNELL ELECTION

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 929, 24 March 1930, Page 1

PARNELL ELECTION

SELECTION OF REFORM CANDIDATE SUPPORTERS WILL DECIDE “The selection of a candidate is entirely a rpatter for the party supporters in Parnell, and it will be made according to the constitution of the New Zealand Political Reform League,” said the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates, who arrived in Auckland from Dargaville on Saturday evening. X[R. COATES left for Wellington last evening, but expects to return to Auckland within the next few days. Preliminary arrangements for the selection of the official Reform Party candidate will be made at a meeting of friends and supporters of the party in the Remuera Library Hall on Wednesday evening. This is the first step in the constitutional procedure of the Reform League, in selecting a candidate to contest a seat which is not held by a member of the party. At this meeting, areas in the electorate will be grouped for the purpose of the selection of delegates to a conference, which will select the official candidate.

All arrangements for the convening of the meetings and conference are in the hands of the electorate committee, which will also fix the date by which nominations for candidates are to be received. The selection conference is called with the authority of the Dominion president of the league. Delegates are expected to ascertain by inquiry the feeling of the people in their districts, and they shall not be instructed in such a way that their hands are tied when the vote is taken. Candidates are required to sign a uniform nomination paper agreeing to abide by the decision of the conference and to support the candidate selected. Any person other than the officially endorsed candidate standing in opposition to such candidates shall not be entitled to be chosen as an official candidate for a period of six years and six months. ELECTORAL ROLL REGISTRATION FOR BY-ELECTION CHANGES OF ADDRESS According to the Electoral Act, every adult person who has resided in New Zealand for one year, and who has resided in any electoral district for not less than three months immediately preceding the date of his application for registration as an elector o': that district, and who is a British subject either by birth or naturalisation in New Zealand, Is entitled to be registered as an elector of that district. Since the date of the general election there will be a number of young people in the ParneU electorate, who have attained the age of twenty one years. These will require to make immediate application for registration, providing they have not already done so. Electors who have since transferred into the Parnell electorate, and who have filled the three months residential period, will require to apply for registration. The roll used at the general election last year will be brought up to date and employed at the polling booths. A Supplementary roll containing the names of all persons who have since been registered will be printed shortly. This supplementary roll will be closed on the day of the issue of the writ. According to the electoral act, on the expiration of ten days after notification 1 of the vacancy in the Gazette the Speaker instructs the Clerk of Writs to issue a writ to supply the vacancy. The writ. Of which advice may be sent to the electoral officer by telegrapn. gives the date for the closing of nominations and the date on which the poll is to be taken. Applicants for positions as deputyreturning officers in the Parnell electorate have not waited for the official announcement of the holding of an election. On Saturday morning Mr. W. Lovell, the returning officer for Parnell had received numerous applications, and during the morning a notice had to be posted outside the office to the effect that all applications had been filled. NOT STANDING MR. T. U. WELLS Mr. T. U. Wells will not be a candidate for the United Party nomination for the vacant Parnell seat, as he has no intention of entering the political arena at all. LABOUR ANNOUNCEMENT WILL CONTEST THE SEAT Press Association WELLINGTON, Today, j Mr. Walter Nash, M.P.. secretary of • the Labour Party, says the party will contest the parnell seat.