NO LICENSE CONVENTION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 159, 9 July 1903, Page 2

NO LICENSE CONVENTION.

i DEPUrATION TO THE PKEMIER. Per Press Associatibn. Wellington, July 8. Mr. Stddon wasinterviewid to-nigh', by a deputation of about 110 de'egates to the No License Convention and 33 members of Parliament. The depu- { tation urged that no licensing poll] should be liable to be set aside by mere t chnic.dities; that when a poll was declared void a fresh pull should imrnadiafctly ba taken ; that the clause of the j Act b3 repealed which provides that j a poll shall ba void unles< one-half of the el-ictors on the r ill record thsir votes; that invalid votes should not count .in the total out <.f which the tauaperanco party have to get a throe- i fifths maj r >ri"y ; that clause 33 of the Acs of 1895 shou'd ba made clearly! applicab'e to the Kiog Coun'ry, and i t'oat steps betaken tocuriail iiregulun-! ties at polling booths. i Mr Seddoa promised the represent i- j ticQß would have the careful consid-ta- i I'iin of the Cabinet. With regard to a' fresh election when a poll was declared ; void, the question was whether Parlia- ]

ment would make legislation on the subj >ct retrospective. He agreed that heavy p?n»lties should be imposed with a view of preventing irregularities at pol s, and tha'j club charters should be ruSject to the local option pill. He would go furih ir thaa the depu'ation j ar.d siy that he would not allow any- j on' in ihe prohibition dHnci to have' 'groj i.-j (lis own house. |