THE COMING ELECTION.

Taihape Daily Times, 9 July 1919, Page 4

THE COMING ELECTION.

AND NEW .ELECTORATES'. ' REVISED ROLLS ALMOST READY. WEfLLINGTON,_JuIy 7. The Electoral Department is not going to be caught mapping in the uncertainties of present.-day politics. Its preparations for a g'eneral'ele'ction are so forward that within. a few weeks it will be quite ready with new rolls covcring the changes in boundaries a.ifeeted by the Repres'eni‘a.tibn<-Cdmmiséiom 01's in»-I'-91‘7. T ’ ‘ " -‘

Owing to the changes in the .inci'derme of population since 1911;‘ "tl‘le‘sh Cdmmissioners found that it wei§": 3ilé‘cessary, at the last revisieri, fo ‘take three seats from the South Island and. g-ive‘t.hl's amount of extra represenflt-‘i ation to the North Island.’ The con-1 atituenciea now represented-by Messrs‘ Hudson (Motueka), _ Dickie (Selwyn), ‘ and R. Scott (Otago Central) were‘ .ac’cordingly abolished. A Very] thorough r¢~a.rta,nvgemen't of boundaries‘ in Otagn resulted in the disappear-"*{ _am3e sf Bruce, which is noir composer: , of}; portion of Otago Central and"-aifim; area of the old Bruce electorate, is‘ now known‘ as Tuapeka. In*th‘e“' North Island, the three new seats are Roskill, in the Auckland suburbs, Rate? run, running “into Bay of Plenty, and" llanawattu, on the West Coaéhbetween

:“Palmerstou North .. and _; '~Wellington. I These changes have‘neeessita“ted"'great I revision: of the rolls, so as to transfer } electors ‘into their new areas. The work has been underweigh for some time, the mamas have now been transferred, and li«%r_i€'hill f-‘cw_ weeks the new rolls will ibe in ‘the: printers?_ hands. The new lrolls m_Eiy‘be regarded as “'clean,"’ rowing to the very recent pair ing‘ which jpreceded the special licensisif A further‘ revision Will, hOTS".‘L-‘Y ' be secured through the pros’;-ss of §l§tifying transfers of electors 4-to nm?3~‘r'areas, each elector will rec_eive a. notification of the transfer by‘p‘ost, directe-d"to the address on the old roll. If the'notification is returned by the post officc it will indicate a. chang;e of residence, and cause the deletion. of the name‘ from the roll. Electors vihoflhave been placed in a new electorate will thus receive an ofiicial notification, but. if they have changed their residence they should take the precaution of making a. fresh enrolment.