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Each Deputy Registration Officer will

need two or three clerks and an interpreter who

will marshal the applications and compile the draft

lists of electors and ultimately compile the registers

themselves.

The minimum staff would thus be:-

The Registration Officer.

Chief Assistant.

12 Deputy Registration Officers.

40 Clerks (approximately).

13 Interpreters.

This staff would be required for from three

to four months and a similar, but reduced, staff

would be required yearly.

B.

Election Staff.

For the conduct of the elections themselves

the staff required would be

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Returning Officer.

Chief Assistant.

20 Presiding officers (approximately).

This figure is mere guess work until

the number of electors and thus the

number of polling stations is known.

20 Poll Clerks.

20 Interpreters.

(20 Additional persons for the count)

* 20 Police Officers.

One for each polling station.

In England the Presiding Officers were

usually practising solicitors or very senior managing

clerks; the poll clerks were solicitors' articled

clerks, junior managing clerks and fairly senior