GREATER CHRISTCHURCH

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11500, 5 February 1903, Page 5

GREATER CHRISTCHURCH

THE SYDENHAM POLL. AMALGAMATION AGREED TO. THE EROPOSAITcARBIED BY 518 VOTES. The poll to decide whether Chrkstchnrch, Sydenham, St. Albans and Linwood fhould in future be consolidated into one municipality or remain separate, hae been taken. Sydenham, where the battle has fiercely during the pact week or so, yeflterday decided in favour of ainal That deciejon has confirmed the polls taken in St. Alban* and Linwood, and now all that remains to give effect to the -wishes of the burgeesw of the different boroughs uniting » the presentation by each Council oi a petition to his Excellency the Governor, praying that the districts be united, and the iesue of his Excellency's proclamation granting the prayer of the petitioning Councils. A larger number voted yestwday at Sydenham on the proposal than voted in the city when the -poll was taken on the matter; the Sydenham voters numbering 1573 against 1287 in the city. Sydenham'* majority in fgyour of the proposal w«s not 60 large as t«gl.city's; in the city the majority wa* 112y, in Sydenham it was 518. l*retvming that the four hundred persona who pcfctitaed vot«* in Sydenham, and the city or tko other boroughs, all voted at Sydenham yesterday, thtre is still a fairly large majority of Sydenham voters in favour of the proposal. The voting vi Sydenham yesttrday is ."aid to constitute a record at a municipal poll. Last ya;r the number of votes oaet at tie Mayoral election vas abou*i 1000.