NEW ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES
HOTELS AFFECTED. PETITIONS PRAYING FOE. RELIEF PRESENTED TO PARLIAMENT. A petition signed by sis licensees residing in the South Island was presented to the House of Representatives yesterday by Mr R. Scott (Central Otago), praying for an amendment to tho Legislature Act, 1908, so that the boundaries of districts may be altered without its being necessary to place licensed promises in no-license districts. The petition stated that if the alterations of the boundaries of electoral districts at present proposed by the South Island Representation Commission bo carried info effect tbe result would bo to place the respective licensed premises of petitioners in a no-licenso district. A majority (in some cases an overwhelming majority) of the electors in the vicnity of the respective premises voted continuance at Inst, licensing poll. The proposed alterations^would result in very serious loss, and In some cases ruin to petitioners. The petition is signed bv tbe licensees of tbe Outram Hotel, tho Terminus Hotel. Outram, the Lee Stream Hotel, the Clerk’s Junction Hotel, Middlemaroh, and the Railway Hotel. Middlemarch.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9795, 19 October 1917, Page 6
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176NEW ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9795, 19 October 1917, Page 6
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