THE LICENSING ISSUE.
NEW; ELECTION POSSIBILITY. NEW POLL NOT REQUIRED. The possibility of another general election before the newly-elected Parliament has run for the usual term of three years has drawn attention to the position with regard to the licensing issue. However, there will be no necessity for another poll on this issue if Parliament is dissolved within the next two years, the present result continuing in force until the electoral poll following, when he licensing question will again be submitted to the people. The Statute governing the holding of licensing joolls isjlie Licensing Act, 1908, section 12b of which reads: —“If at any time Parliament is dissolved before it has been two years in existence, then at the taking of the electoral poll for the new Parliament no licensing poll shall be taken, but the result of the licensing poll taken at the thefii last previous general election shall continue in forte until such licensing poll is again taken simultaneously with the electoral poll next after the dissolution of such new Parliament.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3873, 20 November 1928, Page 4
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173THE LICENSING ISSUE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3873, 20 November 1928, Page 4
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