LICENSING POLL

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 75, 22 December 1919, Page 8

LICENSING POLL

THE LATEST FIGURES MAJORITY AGAINST PROHIBITION 1526 The returns of voting in tho licensing districts throughout New Zealand, are now comnlete. and tho first batches of soldiers' votes have been received. The soldiers' votes show an absolute majority for State Purchase, but since a State Purchase vote counts as a Continuance vote in the calculation of majorities, tlio efl'ect is to ircrcase the majority against Prohibition, which stands now at. 1526. The details are given below:— NEW ZEALAND RETURNS. Continuance 231,121! Slale Purchase ,10,10" Prohibition 2G0,-13-t Mapritv against Prohibition I.IBG a. SOLDIERS IN ENGLAND. j Continuance 112 State I'urehaso .' 230 Prohibition 33' Majority against Probition 339 SOLDIERS ON TALUNE (from Samoa), Continuance 2 State Purchase 1 Prohibition 2 Majority against Prohil'iiion 1 GRAND TOTALS. 231,237 State Purchase 30,728 Prohibition 2G0.4G!) Majority against Prohibition 1,520 Tho votes recorded bv means • of seamen's permits and absent voters' permits have still to be counted. They will be included in tho official counts, which will not be begun in flie various districts until all tlte papers have been received. About 1800 seamen's permits and about 10.000 absent voters' permits were issued, but some of these permits may not have been used.. The filial count will also inclutfc the votes of 1371 soldiers now at sea on their wav to New Zealand. The transport, with the lumber of voters aboard and "■tho date of arrival at New Zealand ports, am as follow:—'Ruahine. 381 men, December. 25: Pimutaka, '102 men, January 22; Ivi'goma, 311 men, January 1G; Euanehn. 181 men, January 30.