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From: "Diane Wilson" <>
Subject: Re: [NZ] Electoral Roll 1881 & "Aliens"
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:11:39 +1300
References: <BA66997E.7C09%jools@maxnet.co.nz>


Hi Julie

The qualifications for enrolment for the 1881 election in NZ were

All males aged 21 and over who EITHER owned property OR had lived in New
Zealand for at least one year and in an electorate for at least six months
before registering as an elector

Maori who owned property on individual title where they were so qualified

So 1881 was the first to be held using Universal Suffrage as you did not
have to own property to vote.

This is a excerpt from the excellent "New Zealand Electoral Atlas" by Alan
McRobie

This book is almost essential reading for NZ genealogists who are using
electoral rolls as a research tool

Diane


> I tried this question a month ago - perhaps those that might have known
were
> on holidays.
>
> The only one of my ancestors missing (known to be in NZ) off the 1881
> electoral roll was my Azorean Portuguese gt.gt. grandfather - who wasn't
> naturalised until 1888. Is that why he's missing? Was the vote only
given
> to British Subjects?
>
> Julie M Skellern,
> NEW ZEALAND
>
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