LICENSING POLL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1955, 22 March 1919, Page 3

LICENSING POLL.

RESULTS ON THE DAY,

The Attorney-General, Sir Francis Bell, issued on Thursday the following statement with respect to the official announcement of the result of the liquor poll to he taken or, April 101 h:— ' 1. The effect of paragraph (c) of sub-seclion (1) of section 9 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1918, read with section 4 of the same Act, is to provide (hat the procedure at the poll, and also (lie procedure with respect to the counting of the votes, ami the preliminary count, shall ho in accordance with (he procedure dcline.il by the Legislature Act, 1908, and its amendments, except only in regard to the special procedure provided for recording the votes of members of the Expeditionary For-

Therefore, (a) the provisions of section 45 of the Legislature Amendment Act. 1910, providing for apreliminary count of the voles at each polling-place by each deputy returning ollieer; and (h) the provisions of section 137 of the Legislature Act, 1908 (as amended by section 4(5 of till! Legismii'.i’O ~cL 19.10), providing for an announcement by each deputy returning officer of the result of the preliminary count at the polling-booth under his (•barge, and for the notitication by telegraph to the returning officer of mieh result, should be observed, and (•(implied with.

3. TJie provisions of seel ion 43 of (lie Legislature Amendment Act, providing for the jiual counting by the returning officer of Urn votes ol each electoral district, and the public announcement of the result, should lie followed. 4. .Every returning officer must also, aider lie has completed the count for his electoral district, comply with the requirements of subsection (2) of section 13 of the Licensing Amendment Act, I!) 18, by transmitting to the Alinister fur Justice the particulars defined in that subsection.

The effect of the foregoing is (hat (he results of the poll will he published in the customary manner as soon as they are available, on the night of the poll. Soldiers’ voles, however, will he held over until a later date.