Aug. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2093

487. (a.) The following provisions of the Legislature Act, 1908, are printed for officers’ information:—

488. (1.) The Registrar shall remove from the roll of the district the name of every person enrolled thereon who is proved to the satisfaction of the Registrar to have left that district, and it shall not be necessary to summon any person whose name is so removed.

(2.) But no name shall be removed as last mentioned until the expiration of six months after the time or the approximate time when such person is proved to have left the district, or until after the return by the Post Office of a registered electoral-notice letter as mentioned in section two hundred and thirty-three hereof, addressed to such person at his place of abode as entered on the roll, unless the retention on the roll of the name of the said person is objected to and such objection is sustained, in which case the Registrar shall remove such name forthwith.

233. (1.) Any summons or notice under this Division of this Act may be served by delivering the same to the person to whom it is addressed, or by leaving the same at his place of residence as stated on the roll, or by sending the same to such residence through the post by registered letter, marked on the outside “Electoral-notice letter,” addressed to the person to or upon whom such summons or notice is required to be sent, delivered, or served, and the sending of such summons or notice in manner aforesaid shall be sufficient service.

(2.) If any letter marked as aforesaid is not claimed, notice of the said letter being at the post-office for delivery shall be sent to all other post-offices in the same electoral district, and posted on a notice-board at the said post-offices.

(3.) Where any notice or summons is sent by registered letter marked as aforesaid, addressed to any person at his place of residence as stated on the roll, with a special request that such letter may be returned to the sender at the expiration of fifteen days if the person to whom the letter is addressed cannot be found, the return of such letter by the Post Office shall be deemed sufficient proof that the aforesaid person has quitted such place of residence.

(4.) The Post Office receipt for an electoral-notice letter shall be evidence of the posting thereof, but not of its contents.

(b.) The usual currency of six months for redirection orders may be extended in cases in which there is no doubt of the identity of an elector with the person by whom a redirection order has been given.

488. Under section 69 of the Legislature Act, 1908, a Registrar of Electors is authorized to send registered letters free on matters connected with the amendment of rolls. Under section 91 (c) an envelope containing a ballot-paper (elector’s right) and an application for a ballot-paper is sent free to the Returning Officer of the district in which the vote is exercised. Surcharge of the unpaid postage on letters not coming within the two categories given above must be marked at the office of posting.

489. (a.) Any Postmaster having an undelivered electoral notice which it is believed cannot be delivered must exhibit outside his office, within three days of its receipt, in a conspicuous place, the full address of such notice, and advise his Chief Postmaster by first mail. An electoral notice may be delivered to the addressee only. A written order cannot be accepted unless the addressee is known to the Postmaster or his officers to be in the district.

(b.) On receipt of advice of undelivered notices the Chief Postmaster will take immediate steps to see that the full addresses of such notices are exhibited at all offices within the respective electoral districts.

(c.) Unclaimed registered electoral-notice letters specifically marked “Electoral-notice letter” are to be returned, according to special request, to Registrars of Electors. Before they are returned, every effort, including advertisement, is to be made to deliver them. Should the number of such unclaimed electoral-notice letters warrant the step, Chief Postmasters are authorized to have lists printed locally, after reference to the Secretary, saying how many lists are required. Undelivered electoral notices issued by a Registrar of Electors who is also a Postmaster may be marked “Return to sender,” and returned direct to the Registrar of Electors concerned by the Postmaster, instead of being forwarded to the chief post-office for disposal. Letters so returned are still to be treated as registered. Other unclaimed “special-request” letters for return to Registrars of Electors are not to be advertised,