Licensing Referendum.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 April 1919, Page 4

Licensing Referendum.

THE PROHIBITION MAJORITY-

INCREASED TO' 150

WELLINGTON. April 16L

Latest returns make the licensing poll:

Continuance 243,297 L Prohibition 243,447 v Prohibition Majority 150 DUNEDIN CENTRAL RECOUNT DUNEDIN, April 16. Dunedin Central returns, including absent voters and seamen, are: Continuance 3035 Prohibition 3329 Informal 75 Prohibition Majority 794 DUNEDIN SOUTH FINAL. DUNEDIN, April 16. The Dunedin South final count is: Prohibition 4708 Continuance 3457 Majority for Prohibition 1251 This includes absent voters, of * whom 160 voted for Prohibition and 92 for Continuance. SOLDIERS' VOTE IN EGYPT. MAJORITY FOR CONTINUANCE 1400. WELLINGTON, this day. A SOLDIERS VOTES IN EGYPT. Continuance 1853 Prohibition 444 TOTAL MAJORITY FOR CONTINUANCE 1269. WELLINGTON, this day Including the vote of the soldiers in Egypt the total majority for continance is now 1269. NAPIER. NAPIER, this day. The absent voters polling resulted: Continuance 106, Prohibition 142, thermal count showing: Continuance 3868 . Prohibition 3820 Informal 82 Majority for Continuance 84 WAIMARINOThe final returns for WaimarinO 1 are: Continuance 2954 Ar Prohibition 2009

Majority for Continuance 945

"AN IRREVOCABLE STEP."

SYDNEY PAPER'S VIEW.

BYDNEY, April 16. Th e Daily Telegraph, in a leader on the New Zealand Prohibition vote, after referring to the fact that the reduction of Prohibition's lead resulted almost wholly from men on activeservice, says that New Zealand soldiers may be regarded as typical of the Dominion's manhood. None had been so long away as to forget the conditions existing flhere, among which the triennial Prohibition poll was amongst the best known and most discussed. Their vote may therefore be taken as a guide to the feeling of the rest of the population. It is a fair inference that the greatest number of supporters of Prohibition are women and the greater number of opponents are men. If this be so the people of New Zealand may fairly be congratulated o nhaving refused to take an irrevocable step. They will have abundant opportunities of introducing national prohibition in the f\ future.