SUPERINTENDENT’S LETTERS.

White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 260, 19 February 1917, Page 2

SUPERINTENDENT’S LETTERS.

MAORI DEPARTMENT. Dear Sisters,- Will all those who have received collecting cards from me during the last year remember that they should be returned to me at once, whether filled or not. In case of any one wishing to keep hers for collecting this year, would she kindly notify me to that effect? —Yours in Union service, N. F. WALKER. Organising Treas. Maori Dept.

GOOD CITIZENSHIP. Dear Sisters,— May I again remind members of the N.Z. I nions of the Municipal, School Committee, and Hospital Board elections at the end of April? I write thus early in order that all arrangements for these elections —selection of candidates, etc.— may be made, or at least begun before the Union Convention in Marth, as when that is over Pttle time is left, and whatever is done is likely to b • hurried and insufficiently considered. As I gather from the letter of a cor respondent that there is still a little doubt in the minds of some as to the qualifications of electors and candidates for the School Committees, 1 may perhaps repeat what has been already stated in the October “White Riboon”: That any householder resident in the district, whether man or woman, can stand for election, and that there is nothing legally to prevent a man and h s wife standing for the same Committee, if they so choose. Nominations should be sent in seven days beforehand, but if the election takes place at a householder’s meeting, as is usually the case, they may also be made at the meeting. The vote in these cases is restricted to householders, whether men 0 women, that is, those occupying their own houses, or those in whose name the house, whether the whole or part of it, is rented; a man and his wife possessing a vote, but no member of the family. In districts which have been placed under the ne*\ regulations, according to the Education Act, 1914 (see “White Ribbon” for October, page 2), the election takes place at the same time and under the sanm conditions as the

Municipal elections. In all these elections the qualifications for candidates are the same as those noted above; and I w ould specially remind our members that women, as well as men, are eligible for a seat on the City Council, where they can do and have done good work. As regards voting, every adult individual, man or woman, over 21, who has resided in the district for »hree months, is entitled to vote, provided that his or her name is on the Municipal Roll. Electors should make a point of ascertaining in good time that their names appear upon the roll, and if not, should take imm d steps to have them placed thereon. — Yours in the work, MARIAN JUDSON, N.Z. Supt. Ciood Citizenship Dept. Nelson, January 15, 1917.

CORRECTION. In last month’s “White Ribbon” it was stated that the roll used was the Parliamentary Roll. It should have read the franchise is the same as the Parliamentary franchise. Every person entitled to be on the Parliament- * ary Roll is entitled to be on the Municipal Roll, but he must make sure his name is on the Municipal Roll. —Editor, “White Ribbon.”