MUNICIPAL ELECTORAL ROLLS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 28 March 1907, Page 2

MUNICIPAL ELECTORAL ROLLS

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AX AID TO "S'ITmNC." I'd' l'rovi Assoeiatiun. Auckland, J) arch 'M. hi reporting to t lie City Council on the compilation ot I lie municipal nil, I hi! Town Clerk drew altfiit ion to the number of cl:iimw for enrolment on the li.it submitted, which showed how easy It would he to "hiuir" I lie supplementary lull liy till' nuikiiitf of claims ut. the hist nioiiieiil I>V persons not posscssjnn lie necessary t(ini 1i 1 ieat ionw. Tile list ■oiiliiineil twenty names, anil the Town vli'rk Htateil tli'nt these examples indi■aied a demanil hy persons who hud not i residential t|uali(ic;iUoU, but sini;j)y boaitli'is, |i showed that n form ot claim, »vhHi purported to Ik' a solemn 'jul simere declaration thai the statements therein vvoiv true, was not sulli ] \*ieut io prevent making claims i winch they had no lentil to make, .vhil«- ilie obligation on tin? Town Clerk io put tli'.- name "f •'very applicant, on Hie roll in e;i*e of the supplementary nil!, which could not bo amended after bcin'j; closed, lead to considerable mil • stnfiinjz." He iceonimended that die names rolei'tod to bo deleted from the roll, and the applicants noliiied that iliov must sullioiently prove their claims before the closing of the supplementary mil ou April 14. A further list of 20 naiiies were recommended for further investigation, claimants all being subtenants at from 4s to 7s t>d vv wwk.

The Council, at a meeting to-day, adopted the Town Clerk's recommendations. The Mayor stated that the mailer had already been referred to at the hist Municipal Conference, and no doubt the Government would make the necessary amendment in the Act.