LOCAL OPTION POLL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 113, 7 December 1908, Page 5

LOCAL OPTION POLL.

❖ With reference to the results in the local option poll some very close polling was announced, and recounts are being made in some instances, while in the case of Masterton where no-license was carried by a small majority, a petition has been lodged, to invalidate the poll. The recount of votes in the Waitemata el:ctorate for the local option poll, which was ordered by Mr R. W. Dyer, SM., at the request of those intersteed in "license," took place on Friday, under the supervision of Mr H. H. G. Ralfe, and before Mr Webster, J.P. It resulted as follows :

Continuance 2471 Reduction 2967 No-license 3369 Valid voters, 5941; informal, 94. No proposal has been carried. Reduction has been lost by 31- votes, and no-license by 195 3-sth votes. The previous recount resulted thus : Continuance, 2459; reduction, 2964; no-license, 3362. Valid voters, 5920. Reduction was thus carried by four votes, and 190 more were required to carry no-license. It is stated that a recount of the Ohinemuri poll will take place, before a magistrate, next week. The local option poll in Aucklaud, where reduction was carried, affords gome interesting figures. For the purpose of local option, the three city electorates are grouped, and details of the voting show that while the suburban portions of the city polled heavily fpr rio-license and reduction, the central portion voted continuance by a jnajority of 122, City West which embraces the Ponsonby district carried no-license with a majority of 312 votes over the requisite three-fifths, and 979 above the bare majority required for reduction. City East voted 166 over the bare majority, but 427 under the three-fifths majority. When the totals were grouped it was found that reduction was carried by 193 votes.