THE GENERAL ELECTION.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 November 1919, Page 6

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

PREPARATION OP THE ROLLS. WORK AT NEW PLYMOUTH. A THOROUGH SYSTEM. It is generally believed that the gen-1 ernl elections will take place on Thursday, December 11, and the rolls v will probably close in Taranaki about November 20. The candidates announced in the Taranaki Province are ("s" indicating the sitting member): — TARANAKI. 6. G. Smith (s) I. Lab. BGMONT. D. L. A. Asbuury 0. 0. Hawken G. STRATFORD. Hon. J. B. Hine (s) <3k E, Masters Lib.-Lab. PATEA. W. Morrison ......... L. G. V. Pearce (s) G. With a view to affording every facility for those entitled to exercise the franchise at the forthcoming general election, to see that they are on the roll, the Department has had inquiries made regarding practically every elector whose name is at present on the main roll of the electorate in which he resides, or in which h<S^resided at the time of the last poll. The registrars in the different electorates have employed canvassers and the post office officials have assisted in tho matter, and what amounts to almost a» house-to-house canvass has been made in the more closely populated areas. In the country districts the assistance oi the post office officials has been particularly valuable. In every case where an elector has changed his address and the registrar has received notice of the same from any source, the elector is at once cpmmunicated with by letter (with an addressed envelope enclosed for. a reply) to ascertain if the reported alteration of address is correct and 11 u reply in the affirmative is received the new address is properly entered on the roll at the registrar's office. If the elector has removed to another electorate a transfer application form is enclosed in the letter, and he is advised to fill in and forward the same to the registrar of the eleetprate in which his new place of residence is situated. Should no reply be received by the officer by whom the inquiry is made the name of the elector is deleted from the roll As there is no expense attached to the sending of the reply to the registrar there can be no excuse if 'an elector. failing to communicate with the [officer, finds his name struck off the roll, To show those whose claims for enrolment have fliecn accepted since the last roll was published (June 30. llKfl) a provisional unnumbered supplementary roll has been issued and a copy of this is on vieW at the office of the registrar of each district. This shows the applications accepted up to October S, iwnd so far as the Taranaki Electorate is concerned contains about 750 to 800 names, and several hundred more have been received since that date. A large number of corrections to and erasures from the main roll have been made, but in no case has' a name been taken off without the elector first being written to by the registrar.* A roll, revised ur> to 4 p.m. each day, is on view outside the office of the registrar at <"■ ""'-lurthouso, New Plvmouth. T precautions have been taken by the Department with a view to ensuring that every eligible person shall be on the roll and that no one already on tli» roll shall be taken o(T unless through liis own fault or neglect. Notwithstanding (his it is none the less important that every elector should satisfy himself or herself that his o. her name is on the roll. For tho purpose of affording means for ascertaining tiiis, roTTe have been deposited at every post office- and also a. supply of enrolment claim forms, and a* notice is sent to each offiee, for exhibit ; "i, intimating that claim forms can be otainecr within. The supplementary roll will close at 0 p.m. on the day the writ for the aeneral election is issued, which will be within ten days of the official dissolution o-f the present Parliament by the Governor-General.