LICENSING POLL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 105, 1 May 1903, Page 2

LICENSING POLL.

.-- —». K.UPAHA PETITION.

PUB PBKBS ASSOCIATION | Auckland, April SO. Mr Hutchison, M.M., heard a petition from electors of K'tipara Licensing District to declira recent licensing po'l vjid on the grounds:—That the poll was not np in wi*hiu the hours required by the Act. Thit the polling booth at K-iukap ikapa «a.a nob opened on ths day of elec ion, and thit in consequence many electors were prevented frum votir-g. i Mathew G. Lambert, re'urning officer, t=aid that on the d iy that he waR receiving replies from persons anked to act as deputy loturning officers he was very bußy and hischtk brought in a tnd said "Sinc'air, Kaukapikapa," and thinking that Sinclair had accepted he wroto that gent h man's nami on thu l.'st as deputy-returning officar. Aft:T the elcion he fjund that tho wire 6aid thit Sinclair was away from home, and that no bco*h was op ned at Kaukapik.ipa. ! His Worship s>id that there were 48 votes between thii lowest successful candidates and thi text candida'e. j Mr Palm r d tHat the closing ' of a poll ipso facto null fied the whole | election. (

His Worship h.-ld that this was not

The cass was adjourned for a >veek in order th»t His Worship raigh 1 ; be furuiuhed wih aiditiou.,l inforrna'ioa.