Guide 3 to NSW State Archives relating to Responsible Government - OCR - Flipbook - Page 175
A Guide to New South Wales State Archives relating to Responsible Government
Appointment of Returning Officers, 1913
The Chief Electoral Officer wrote to all Returning Officers on 4 July
1913 notifying them that in view of the redistribution of State
Electoral Districts steps would be taken to relieve all Returning
Officers of their positions as from 31 July 1913. Eligible Returning
Officers could submit a nomination for a position of Returning
Officer for the district under the redistribution which included or
formed part of the district currently represented or for the new
district of which a large portion formed part of the old electorate.
CGS 906,
[5/5259]
The papers include: recommendations or nominations from
Members of the Legislative Assembly and from groups such as the
Petersham Political Labour League; applications for position of
Returning Officer; applications for re-appointment as Returning
Officers; cancelled Commissions; minute papers for the Executive
Council concerning relieving Returning Officers of their positions
and recommending the appointment of new Returning Officers,
including list of Returning Officers for State Electorates; and
Government Gazette notices about the appointment of new
Returning Officers.
Also included are various lists, such as a list of electorates under
the State Electoral Districts Redistribution of 1912; list of new
Electoral District, 1912, and the Returning Officer resident therein;
and a list of Returning Officers for the new Electoral Districts
(showing new electorate, present electorate, name of Returning
Officer and address, principle centre of the new electorate, and
applications). There is also a summary list showing the Electoral
District; applications for past Returning Officers giving name;
nominations by Members; other applications and requests (for
example, "Ashfield Political Labour League for a younger man").
General Election accounts, 1913-14
This mainly comprises papers relating to claims for, and payment
of, expenses in connection with the 1913 General Election,
including those relating to the second ballot which was held in
many of the electorates. The claims relate to such expenses as
repair of ballot boxes, erection and dismantling of polling booths,
advertising, refreshments for Police, travelling expenses, and extra
remuneration for election officials. Included are vouchers in
advance, estimates of the cost of the election, summaries of the
cost of the election, recapitulations of vouchers in support of
advances, cheque books, cheque receipt books, papers re the
opening of Advance Accounts at banks for Returning Officers,
requests for additional clerical assistance, applications for further
advances, complaints about non-payments, explanations for
queried charges, refunds for over-payments, and the issue of fresh
cheques for lost ones.
CGS 906,
[5/5248-49,
5/52775279.1]
Also to be found among these papers are some relating to
appointments by Returning Officers of electoral officials, with the
corresponding declarations of Deputy Returning Officers and Poll
Clerks.
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