PROHIBITION POLLS.
THE HEARING OF PETITIONS. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, last night. The hearing of the petition against the Chalmers local option poll was fixed for to-day. There was no appearance against the petition. Mr C. C. Graham said that lie had decided that he had Ihe-jurisdiction. Mr Adams had stated when the case was called on previously that he would apply to the Supreme Court for prohibition against his hearing the petition, but he had not done so. lie adjourned the enquiry until March. The hearing of the petition against the local option poll at Bruce was commenced at Milton to-day. Messrs F. K Chapman, W. A. Sim, and D. Reid appeared in support of the peti-
tion, and Mr A. S. Adams and J. S. Woodhouse to oppose. The petition set out various irregularities, and Mr Chapman, in opening, said the Act might or might not affect 1 the result of a poll, but the poll could be voided through such cfTeet if it were proved some Act or Acts had a tendency in the direction. In the petition- there were five clauses of acts alleged,which tended to defeat the fairness of the poll. Three of these were positive allegations, and the other two were qualified.
Nineteen witnesses were called ‘in support, of the petition, when the Court adjourned^
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 810, 27 January 1903, Page 3
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