§ 62. Mr. LOVAT-FRASERasked the Home Secretary if his attention has been called to the dissatisfaction which exists with the present method of voting for the election of parish councillors by show of hands; and if he will introduce legislation to substitute voting by ballot?
§ Sir J. GILMOURI am aware that the existing method of voting for the election of parish councillors by show of hands has not been found universally satisfactory. Provision has been made in Section 51 of the Local Government Act, 1933, which comes into force on the 1st June, 1934, for art alternative method of election. Under that section the county council, at the request of a parish council or parish meeting, will have power to order that parish councillors for the parish shall cease to be elected at a parish meeting and shall be elected by the means of nomination and, if necessary, a poll.