THE GENERAL ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 142, 10 November 1914, Page 8

THE GENERAL ELECTIONS.

THE FjblXTOit.lL HULL MUDDLE. BOLLS GIJQm 17 tii NOVliMlHii;.' Telegraph.—Per riess Association. ■ ■ Wellington, Uist Night. There is an unprecedented rush, a Times' representative learned to-day, to enrol on the supplementary rolls for the forthcoming elect.ons. .Never before have people been rush.ng the registrars so close upon the elections", and never before, have registrar;, been so ba.-,y >after the isaue of the main roll. There iiiiils aic alti"il.ub,d to the new eynItcm introduced tins year for the s;>ealkd purging of tiie roils. ■ Tills system lias resulted according to those ili--I'ecently eoneeined,iii a sUte of miidd as tir as the inaUi rolls are concerned, so that thousands of bona lido electors mysteriously struck oil' are now hurrying to have Ue.iir mimes inscribed on the supplementary rolls. It i ; ; antiei- | pai<> thai, even with tile present scurry, '■ the totals of persons on the rolls in i chc.li electorate will fall short of the ,' figures at, last election. Up till to-day, i enrolments in electorates m and about ! Wellington were beuig mad. l at, between ; the rate of 100 f<> 150 a day. The mudi die over the rolls owing to the new ■ system has resulted in the reversion ; to the old syslem of house-to-house j canvas bv an armv of persons emplov- | ed by the Electoral 1). p.'U'tmeut. For I tile last few days thai canvass has been | actively 'pursued. I!, is admitted that i the satisfactory compilation of the ''electoral rolls is a dilFcuit tesk. but the )' letter-carrier-police system, it was also | admitted to-day, had broken-down, and I a resort to the, liouse-to-housc system j Iliad, had to he made. It is expected, ; that the rolls will be closed on November 17. I . MR OKEY AT OMATA.

?.!> ft. Okcy, Government candidate for J 'the Taranaki seat, 6{)ett?d his campaign •at Omata last night. There Were about 'w persons present, Mr Bjlpaftl Bayly, being in the chair. At the close of his address, which was a general endorsement of the Government's policy, the .candidate -answered a number of questions, and received a vote of thanks and confidence, alsp an expression of confidence in the present Government