LOCAL OPTION IN CANADA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1952, 8 January 1914, Page 5

LOCAL OPTION IN CANADA.

. PROHIBITION. CARRIED IN FIF- . .■.,; ,- TEEN TOWNSHIPS,. " Bγ Telegraph-Press Aseocfotion- T Coß.Tr;i»ht ' '■■■ ■ Toronto, January 6. ' ' The Temperance, party has won fifteen Ontario townships in tho latest local option vote.' *'i In only fire townships were adverse rotes recorded. ' . Nineteen townships had an insufficient majority to carry Prohibition. .

A cablegram published last month dealt with the progress of prohibition in the "muiiicipalitiss" of Ontario. This ono deals with "townships"—outlyin? districts. The divisions of Ontario for licensing purposes are cities, towns, incorporated villages, villages, townships and unorganised territories,.' , Municipal authorities and a licensing bench of three commissioners sown . licensing in all incorporated villages, towns, and cities. In these tho law provides for onn hotel license for 250 of.th* population for tln> first 1000, and one iicenso to every 4CO of the population thereafter. Therie arc 835 licensing: divisions in Ontario. Of these, our. cablegram, computes that 39 m-G "townships," and. fifteen have sonc "dry" in tho recent local cjilion- voting. Nearly five-eighths of th» province is nowsaid tn he under prohibition, but that aven chiefly comprises cutlving and rural unorpanisetl territories, lvlioro there are fmv licensed premises. Of the frventythrep towns and cities in this provinr" (stnil that- luimbpr represented oup-lnlf of the total• namitfr in Canada), having 5000 or. more , inhabitants .at tlie last census, uot.ojio was under prohibition.',;;'.-'