时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  Who are those faces that we see in bill boards all around our town or city? These are people who want to represent you on the council, or community board, or hospital board. Every three years, we have a chance to vote for the people we want on these boards. If you believe in democracy, you should vote, even if you only choose to vote for one person that you know.

You should have your voting papers for the local body elections by now. You can vote for a mayor for your city or region and for councillors for your ward 1. Each city is divided into a number of wards 2. Each ward has 1, 2 or 3 councillors, depending on the size of the ward. In Auckland, you will be voting for a mayor and council for the new Super City. This council replaces the eight councils like Waitakere, and Manukau. Listen to Auckland Super-City Changes for more about this.

You will have voting papers for your local community board also. This board looks after community matters.

In some cities and regions, you also vote for the regional council. The regional council looks after the environment of the region including natural resources like rivers. Canterbury people cannot vote for a regional council this time because the government dismissed the councillors. Listen to April 28th 2010 for background to this.

You also vote for seven members of your local Health Board. There are 20 Health Boards in New Zealand. They each have seven elected representatives and four members appointed by the Minister of Health. This is a Single Transferable Vote – STV. You give a number for each person: 1 for your first choice, 2 for your second and so on. You can just vote for one person if you wish.

This is a postal 3 vote. You must return your voting papers by midday of October 9th.

Listen to Register to Vote for more about voting. You can find more information at Local Body Elections

Questions

1. Is it compulsory 4 to vote?

2. Why did less than 50% vote in local body elections three years ago?

3. Do you think there is more interest in the local body elections in Auckland this year than in other years?



n.守卫,监护,病房,行政区,由监护人或法院保护的人(尤指儿童);vt.守护,躲开
  • The hospital has a medical ward and a surgical ward.这家医院有内科病房和外科病房。
  • During the evening picnic,I'll carry a torch to ward off the bugs.傍晚野餐时,我要点根火把,抵挡蚊虫。
区( ward的名词复数 ); 病房; 受监护的未成年者; 被人照顾或控制的状态
  • This hospital has 20 medical [surgical] wards. 这所医院有 20 个内科[外科]病房。
  • It was a big constituency divided into three wards. 这是一个大选区,下设三个分区。
adj.邮政的,邮局的
  • A postal network now covers the whole country.邮路遍及全国。
  • Remember to use postal code.勿忘使用邮政编码。
n.强制的,必修的;规定的,义务的
  • Is English a compulsory subject?英语是必修课吗?
  • Compulsory schooling ends at sixteen.义务教育至16岁为止。
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ac system configuration
accidental failure period
al-qods
amoebozoan
antasthenic
assay bar
automatic-control block diagram
balancing gear
binary recording mode
Binevenagh
biotecture
bluegrasses
Botany Bay fig
caravanner
component-wise product
consumption per unit product of raw material
corpuscular cosmic ray
daphne oil
deep hatch coaming
Delphinium sinoscaposum
derivative tone
device independent pixel
doubly transitive verb form
driven chain wheel
egesina nomurai
extrusion-cooked food
fire control instrument
flaring inlet
fluoroformylone
fool away
Fourier integration
Gaussian points
genus Selaginella
glance aside
hairbrush
half-ape
household deities
Impatiens imbecilla
impute sth to sb
inobtruisive
iron phosphide
katallobaric
kishel
lagants
lexico-grammatical
light vehicles
low-key image
magnetofluid separation
melm
mizen-topsail
moralled
moulded parts
naval engineers
Noflame
nonperiodical
nonsmoking
Ocoroni
orbifloxacin
ownership of property
passenger rail
pendulum action spreader
pertinacity
PIPJ
polycalic
population demography
powerdesk
presentment
pseudologist
public advantages
quadratureaxis
risk for own account
rocksalt
rotating stop
rotoscoop
rubbel
screw rotor
sedimentationtan
serve its purpose
seybold
short wave radio
Sinezërki
SMD interface
sodiums
soft coat
soup-fins
Sovereign Council
stoling
switch-trading
third-harmonic residual voltage
time money
toll dialing
tonles
Trip.
tsubota
uncunningness
under-spurleather
UTS
visual expression
vitellogenes
wuche
WWIF
zero-tolerance policies