HARBOUR BOARD ELECTION.
It was recently pointed out in these columns that, for the purpose of the Harbour Board election, the municipal rolls are brougnt up-to-date, 1 biit the County rolls are antiquatrri. ' This aspect of the question was brought under the notice of the Marine Department by the Hawke's Bay County Council." The secretary of the Marine Department has replied as j . follows: —"Re your telegram 7th instant, about bringing county roll up to date for harbour board; election, I directed to inform you that tbefie is no power to do what, is - dfesired, . and that if regulation was made for purpose under section 7 of the Harbours Amendment Act, 1910, it I would be valueless, as under the Actonly electors of couniies can. vote at • "harbour boiird elections for county representatives, and the Counties Act defines electors to be persons to vote at an election under Act, therefore only (persons on roll made under Counties Act can vote at harbour board elections, and ithere ds no power to alter this by .'feMulation made under either Coun- , ties iA<it , "or Harbour Amendment
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10189, 15 March 1911, Page 4
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183HARBOUR BOARD ELECTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10189, 15 March 1911, Page 4
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