THE LICENSING POLL
ANNOUNCEMENT OP RESULTS,
ll'lio arrangements for the announcement of the result of the licensing noil next mouth were considered by Cabinet yesterday. The Hon. W. H. Hemes statal subsequently that the result of the co'int of, votes by returning officers in each electoral district would be. made puV.i'} by the returning officers immedi« ably after the completion of the count. ' DISCHARGED "sOLDIEKS' VOTES. The Acting-Prime Minister (Sir Janiea Alhsi! informed a Dominion' reporter yesterday that Cabinet had considered a complaint made by certain returned soldiers in connection with the licensing poll. These men had been discharged trim tlio Expeditionary Force, and they had failed subsequently to got their nanus placed on the i'oll. Under the laiv, therefore, they could not vote at the licensing poll. The Government would have liked to help these men to secure their voting privilege, but it could not do anything for them. They had missed their opportunity to enrol in the ordinary Tvay, and as they were discharged they could not be treated as soldier 3.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 149, 19 March 1919, Page 6
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174THE LICENSING POLL Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 149, 19 March 1919, Page 6
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