THE FRANCHISE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2103, 25 September 1890, Page 3

THE FRANCHISE.

TO THE BDITOB.

Snt, —The franchise, and what use can you mafce of it? "Well I will tell you now what use it is to me. You Sir, have got property in five electoral parts of New Zealand, and you could give five votes, I have got none that I can call my own now. With your thirty thousand acres that lay in different parts, I shall be as good a man as you when I go to the poll. No I do not think that is right, I always eould give five votes, I have not heard that it is altered. Yes it is one man one vote now, so I am as strong as you there, and I will try and teach you how to live and act fairly to you neighbor, so as to live amd let live, I will set you an example. Union is strength. We all want to unite to help on each other, and the way is by themaking of good Liberal laws in the land. Mr Editor, will you oblige us by stating in yeur paper how old must a man be before he can claim a vote, and how to go to work to get it, and whether all have to register again, and where to go to do it, for it is a puzzle to us to knew these Tory laws that are made now. We want yoir adviee.—-I am, yours etc., CO.

[The age of 21 years. A man must be 12 months in the colony and six months in the electoral district in which he claims to exercise the franchise before he is entitled to rote' People whose names were on the roll last election need not register again, but they should examine the roll, for fear of their names being omitted. The rolls will be printed in a few days and will be for sale at the various post offices. Any elector can call at a post office and examine the roll and satisfy himself that his name is on it. It very often occurs that mistakes take place in printing the roll, so people should take care to examine it so as to assure themselves that their names are on it. The way to get one's name on the roll is : Get a claim to vote paper from the Registrar of Electors, or from any post office, fill it in, get an elector, the Registrar, or a Justice of the Peace to witness your signature, address it, and it will go without a stamp through the post office. You have only about 14 days now to register so you mast do it at once.—Ed.]