Enumerators Appointed

 
Under the provisions of the War Elections Act officials known as enumerators have to be name, one for each polling sub-division. Sheriff Snider who has been named returning officer, on Monday appointed the following gentlemen to act in Norfolk County.
  

 
Acting upon the suggestion emanating from Sir Robert Borden at Ottawa, Sheriff Snider, in selecting enumerators, has chosen them equally from Liberals and Conservatives. Their duty will be to prepare a list of the women voters of each polling sub-division who have become qualified for the ballot by the War Elections Act. The women affected are described in the following clause of the Act:

" 33 A (1) -- Every female person shall be capable of voting and qualified to vote at a Dominion election in any province or in the Yukon Territory, who, being a British subject and qualified as to age, race and residence, as required in the case of a male person in such province or in the Yukon Territory, as the case may be, is the wife, widow, mother, sister or daughter of any person male or female, living or dead, who is serving or has served without Canada in any of the military forces, or within or without Canada in any of the naval forces, of Canada or of Great Britain in the present war; Provided that this section shall not apply to the wife, widow, mother, sister or daughter of a person no longer serving as aforesaid, unless such person has died in or has been honourably discharged from such service, or, in the case of an officer, has died in or has been permiitted to resign from such service or has been dispensed by competent authority from further service, or in any case, has died after honourable discharge, resignation by permission, or dispensation from further service as aforesaid."