ELECTORAL CENSUS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 8, 4 July 1911, Page 5

ELECTORAL CENSUS.

TO BE TAKEN NEXT SUNDAY. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. In the four centres and some of the adjoining -electorates, an electoral census for the purpose of compiling and purging the Parliamentary rolls to be used at the next general election will be taken on the night of Sunday, July 9th, while in the country electorates, a bouse to house visitation will he made, commencing on Monday, July 10th. There is a difference in connection with the procedure to he adopted in the city and suburban electorates of the four chief centres of population on the one hand, and the country electorates on the other.

In the city electorates a schedule will he placed in every household to be filled up by the occupier or person in charge of the dwelling, with particulars respecting all persons of the age of 21 years and upwards who slept or abode therein on the night of Sunday, July 9th, together with those travelling or out of work during that night (and not included in any other electoral schedule), who return to the dwelling on Monday, July 10th. The schedules will be called for by <;he enrolment officer on July 10th, or as soon as practicable. Electors will be required to have the answers written in their proper columns and the documents duly signed.

Any person wilfully refusing or neglecting to fill up, sign and deliver the schedule, or to answer the necessary enquiries which the enrolment officers are authorised and required to make, is liable to a fine of £5.

In the thickly populated parts of the country doctorates a house to house visitation will lie made by the enrolment officers, who will only require to make one visit. Each officer 'will carry a field book in which he will enter the name of each adult resident., He will also carry a copy of the electoral roll to verify existing registrations and to see that enrolled electors are correctly described in name, occupation, and addross. Mew enrolments will be effected on the spot by the enrolment officer wherever possible, and forms of claim for enrolment with free envelopes addressed to the Registrar for the district, will be left for unenrolled persons absent from the household at the time of the enrolment, officer's visit, with instructions that the claims must be completed and posted to the Registrar without delay. It is not proposed to extend thn house to house visitation to sparsely settled and remote parts of country electorates. Such localities, however, will be provided for by depositing a copy of the roll, together with a supply of enrolment forms, at the nearest post or telegraph office, where a notice will be exhibited drawing attention to the facilities given for enrolment. In all such places postmasters will also assist the Registrar of electors to have all qualified persons enrolled, also to purge from the Toll the names of electors who have left the district since the last compilation.