LOCAL OPTION ENQUIRY.
Ohinemuri Petition.
The enquiry into the petition to have the ivcc ::t local option poll at Ohinemuri voided, commenced at Waihi on Tuesday, before; Colonel Roberts and Messrs' Burgess and Cutten S.M's. Messrs Skerrett and Cotter, with whom v.-ere associated Messrs Clendon, and Moresby appeared for the petitioners, and Messrs Adams ar.ri Miller for the respondents. The chief grounds of the petition appear to be that the polling booths were practical;.- crowded with voters at various times thus destroying the secrecy implied by the act: the returning o'licer opened an extra polling booth or: his own account, and that the treatment of the pallet-boxes and papers was inefficient. A large number of witec sses are to be examined on Loth sides, and it is • xpectcd the inquiry will last for several da vs.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 126, 28 January 1909, Page 2
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136LOCAL OPTION ENQUIRY. King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 126, 28 January 1909, Page 2
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