LICENSING ELECTION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1694, 10 March 1906, Page 2

LICENSING ELECTION.

(To the Editor Gisborne Timea^

Sir,—ln reply to Mr Eait, I may slate Oq tbo refusal of tho no lioense party to acc.’pt the old Licensing Committee for nomination, to savo the expense of a oontest, it was proposed os an alternative that

the victuallers and no licsnße party shoul 1 each nomiuats two candidates, and drav lots for Wallis and Tucker for tho fifsb member. Tnis was refused by the pq license party, on the grounds that as they had polled more votes at last eleotion,

they should nominate three members tp ihe victuallers’ two. This ccol proposal .which the no iicrnse leaders insisted oh has been the cause of the district being put to the oost of the election,

Mr East cannot have failly balanced the question when he writes this misleading paragraph at the end of bis letter.: " The lioensed victuallers have rushed the | mattor, and are respon lie for whatever expense the public bodies are put to." The ehc'ors are too fair minded to be misled by this sort of misrepresentation, and will Bee at onoe that if a fair proposal was rejected by the no lioenso party, and if they insisted on having the oasting vote given them as a matter they were entitled to, blocking a settlement by their preposterous olaim, they are the cause cf loss to the publio bodies.—l am, etc., J. A. HARDING, President I/consed Victuallers’ Association,