ELECTORAL ROLL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1938, Page 7

ELECTORAL ROLL

JUST BELOW MILLION MARK FIGURES FOR DOMINION. INCREASE ON 1935 TOTAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The total number of names on the electoral roll for the 1938 general election has fallen short of the 1,000,000 mark by only 5000. The figure would have been well in excess of 1,000,000 but for deletions' from the main roll necessitated by death, emigration from the Dominion and transfers to other electorates. The main roll total was 865,642, from which have to be deducted deletions totalling 58,135. This leaves the effective strength of the main roll at 807,507. The total number of names on the supplementary rolls is 187,279, which gives a total effective roll for 1938 of 994,786. The effective roll for the previous election in 1935 was 919,798. The 1938 roll shows an increase of 74,988. “There still appears to be some misunderstanding about the position of those persons whose religious convictions prevent them from voting on a Saturday,” said the chief electoral officer, Mr G. G. Hodgkins, in an interview yesterday. “No special provision has been made for persons in that class and the postal voting system is not applicable to them.”