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4.

When the ward boundaries have been settled,

the next step will be to compile an alphabetical list

of the streets (including parts or sides of streets)

in each ward. (But see paragraph 5 below).

This will be necessary because, owing to

similarity in Chinese names and to variations in the

spelling of the romanized version for northerners and

southerners, the listing of Chinese electors

alphabetically would be virtually impossible and the

registers must therefore be in order of streets.

5.

Where a ward covers a large area (e.g. at

Kowloon and South Hong Kong) it will be necessary, for

the convenience of the electors, to have two or more

polling stations. Internal divisions for polling

districts of the wards will have to be settled and

a separate alphabetical list of streets will have to

be compiled for each sub-division of a ward.

6.

Suitable premises (school or other place

with a sizeable room) will have to be selected as

polling stations for each ward or sub-division of a

ward, as the case may be.

*

Uncertainty as to the number of electors

makes it impossible to say that when a ward has been

divided in the best manner for convenience of electors

in reaching the polling stations, further sub-divisions

may not be necessary.

The conduct of the ballot will be entirely

new to those in charge of the various polling stations.

There are always rush hours at the beginning, middle

and end of a day's polling. The machinery of polling