Tr will be learnt with pleasure from the advertisement on our front page that the election of municipal councillors for the current year is not to be, as at one time seemed likely, a walk-over for the official list first drawn up. When the constitution of this list was known, there was so much quiet objection to it that two of the names have been withdrawn, and there are now altogether fourteen names before the ratepayers as candidates for the nine vacant seats. Of these, five, Messrs. Graham, Jansen, Moses, Purdon, and Scott, are members of the expiring Council, and the community is much indebted to them for being willing to continue their valuable and honorary labours for another year. Mr. Purdon has worked hard and conscientiously as Chairman, and will no doubt be re-appointed to that onerous post by acclamation, with Mr. Macgregor, one of the new candidates but an old Chairman, in the vice-Cbair. Mr. Beurmann will undoubtedly be unanimously chosen, both for the respect in which he is universally held, and for the desirability of having the German portion of the community represented by a German. Ihis leaves a large number of candidates for the remaining two seats; but as the election does not open until this day week, there is plenty of time for a combination of names to be made that may prove more attractive to the electors. It is, of course, remembered that in this case itis "one man one vote," even our old-fashioned constitution insisting on this equality, and no proxy voting being permitted. The following is an extract from the relative article (XVIID) in the Land Regulations "On the day appointed for the elec-tiou, should the number of Ratepayers proposed for election as Councillors exceed nine, two officers appointed by the existing Council for the purpose shall attend at the place appointed for the election, to receive the votes of the Ratepayers. These officers shall be provided with a list of all the Ratepayers duly qualified to vote, and shall give to each such Ratepayer as may be present and may require it, a voting card or paper containing a list of the Ratepayers proposed for election.
voter shall then mark on such voting list the names of any number of sons not exceeding nine for whom he intends to vote, and shall deposit the list signed by himself with his own name so marked, in a closed box provided for the purpose of receiving such list."
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