LICENSING POLL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 180, 25 April 1919, Page 6

LICENSING POLL

FURTHER SOLDIERS' VOTES

BIG MAJORITY FAVOUR CONTINUANCE

Some amended official returns from electoral districts have caused a change in the licensing poll gurcs. Tlie count of tlio votes cast by undischarged soldiers in New Zealand, and the counts of the votes recorded on the transport Corinthic, and the hospital 6hip Alaheno, were completed yesterday, •but the figures are not included in the following totals CIVILIAN VOTES. Continuance 229,580 Prohibition 243,319 Majority for prohibition 13,439 SOLDIERS' VOTES. Continuance 19,960 Prohibition 1,700 Majority for continuance 15,260 TOTAL VOTES. Continuance 249,840 Prohibition 218,019 Majority for continuance 1,821 Official coujits that have been reported to the Chief Electoral Officer give tho following amended returns :-s Continuance. Prohibition. Otago Central 2196 2345 Ashburton 30)8 ' 25U2 ' Wellington' North 4951 3500 Eden 3817 6622 Timaru 3061 4171 Nelson 1 31G6' 3021 Motueka 2613 1925 v Wiairau / 3072 2799 Itaiapoi 2759 259 ft, Selwyn 2817 2192 OFFICIAL COUNTS. By Teleirrapli.—Press Association. Auckland, April 21. Following are official counts:— AUCKLAND EAST. Continuance 3754 Prohibition 2861 BAY. OF PLENTY. Continuance 3348 Prohibition 3070 A Press Association telegram from Dunedin 'states that the final return for Clutha is:—Continuance, 1770; prohibition, 2465. MORE SOLDIERS' VOTES CORINTHIC 'AND MAHENO DRAFTS. The results of the voting on the Corinthic and the Itaheno were announced by tho Minister of Justice (the Hon. T. M. Wilt'ord): la.st night: The votes cast by returning' soldiers on the two ships give a • majority of 1012 for continuance, and increase the total continuance majority to 2833. Tho details of th.e voting on' the two ships are as follow:— CORINTHIC. Continuance 927 Prohibition 179 Informal 6 ilajoi'ity for continuance ... 748 MAHENO. Continuance 366 Prohibition 102 Informal 3 Majority for continuance ... 264 " The electoral officers completed yesterday: the counting of votes cast by undischarged soldiers in. the North Island. The South Island votes were to be counted to-day, and Mr. Wilford may be able to announce late to-night the result of the count for the whole of the votes recorded by soldiers in New Zealand. MAIN CAUSES OFMIBITiONDEFEAT MR. BRUNTNELL'S VIEWS. Sydney, April 2-1. Mr. Bruntnell, a member of the Legis-. lative Assembly, who has returned from New Zehland, where ho took part in the Prohibition campaign, said that the main causes for the defeat were the feeling among sympathisers that it was unwise to take a vote while the soldiers were 'away, and the apathy shown by the | women of the Dominion.—Press Assn.