Licensing Committee Election.

Manawatu Herald, 24 March 1900, Page 3

Licensing Committee Election.

The election for five members for the Licensing District of Manav/atu was held on Thursday. There were ten candidates proposed, one half representing the Moderate party and the other half the Prohibitionist party. Very little interest was exhibited in this town, and the polling was as follows:— ■:

1 Of tan treated as a trivial ai-menf, i indigestion is one of the most intractable of diseases. The remedy to be used is something that will enable the system to assimilato and derive benefit from tbe food !akcn, which is the characieris ie effect of Dr WHiams' pink pills. Summer weather often starts indigestion. When its effects are felt do not fly to purgatives, which at the btst only give temporary reliff, bat use Dr Williams' pink pills, paying carefu' attention to the directions. They have cared many oiher ai'meuts — impoverished blood, debility, St Vilii3' uacce, coHsumptiou, rheumatism, ladies' uilmtntß, vial losses, etc To avoid substitute e ask distinct y fi,r Dr Williams' p'nk pills, and see that the full rame is on every box. Sold by chemist* and.storekeeper?,, and by the Dr Wi Hums' Medicine Co., Wellington, three shi ling per box, six boxi s six tee a and mx, post free. A neat pamphlet entitled "How to be Well" giving simp'e directions will be sent post fres upon applioa'ion.

D. Coughlin ... 70 E. H. Humphrey 60 F. Jenks 80 A. McHardie . . 60 V. C. Ransom ... 62 A. H. Sutcliffe .. 55 R. K. Simpson . . 68 , W. W»ollass .. 63 T. Westwood „ 59 G. N.Wood .. .73 The following is a list of the total numbers polled :— B. K. Simpson . . . . 676 D. Oonghlin .. .. 496 V. 0. Bansom 464 A. MoHardie . . . . 450 G. N. Wood .. .. 449 W. Woollaes . . . . 444 T. Westwood .. .. 442 P. E. Jenks .. .. 425 A. H. Sutcliffe . . . . 403 £. H. Humphrey . . . . 358 . The first five candidates were elected.