THE LICENSING APPEAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7856, 23 June 1905, Page 2

THE LICENSING APPEAL.

(|Per Press Association.) DUNBDIV, June 22, Tho hearing of evidence in support ol th o petition to havo the local option poll at I'ort Chalmers in lWi" declared void on tho ground of lr! was Continued to-day. Witii two exceptions the evidence r S kSF* to tho UoUnHcaloSJS dens boott, where most of the aliased irregularities aro said to have occurred. -'n* ""Puty-ReiriaMra* «>' **o North fc.ast Valley l>ooth, iwho ,visUcd the (.ardens bootii during tho day did not approve of things there. A witness named Gloßsop said that during tho afternoon he had on a chair• m tho booth and publicly protested against the manner i« which' things were conducted, A fanner at fine Hill, who coukl not wait at 2.30, owlfcg to tho crowded stale of the booth, drove to the booth before 7; but found tho door closed. He heard the town' clock strifci- 7 .about three minutes after he found the door closed. Several iwitaesses oeposea to gelling onjy otljC voting paper at tho booth, most of taoini having la ask for the second paper-