LOCAL OPTION POLL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 280, 20 November 1908, Page 2

LOCAL OPTION POLL.

LATEST FROM MAXAKAI'. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Thursday. Keen interest is being taken in the counting oi the Manuknu licensing poll. The result is hanging in the balance. I lie present figures are:—Continuance |2213, reduction 3103, no-license 33,52. The valid votes, calculated on the basis of the I'arliauientary vote, -would represent the failure to carry no-lieense by hi votes, but this cannot lie taken as "•ore than an approximate calculation, while about fifty absentee votes are vet to bo counted. Till-: ADVAXCK IX AIT'KLAXD. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, East Xight, Mr. Wesley Spragg, president of tile -New Zealand Alliance, speaking to-dav on tile results achieved by the No-license Party, said: "It must lie liorne in mind that, all our work, everv scrap of it, i s of the. voluntary sort either in gift or service. Xaturally our organisation Ts detective. On (he oilier band, we a"c opposing (lie wealthiest, most interested, and best organised of combinations, and the magniiicent results can oniv be accounted for by a widespread and growing recognition that the liquor tralhc is inimical to the interests of the people. The liquor question is up for settlement throughout the civilised world, and there is onlv one nav in winch it can be-settled", and that is by Its abolition . With what we have leaned and what we lmve gained as object lessons, and as a starting point, we think- we can forecast that Auckland City as well as its out-districts will shortly ri,l itself of (he liquor tid.de, and that the Dominion itself will soon be free of the traffic and its attcndaiit evils/' REDUCTION JX TAIURI. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Xight. Complete returns for the Taieri local option poll are—Voters 4fil.j, continuance I still, reduction 2lori, iio-licensc -<•«». reduction is therefore carried bv D 7 votes, lIUTT ELECTORATE IXCERTAIX. By telegraph.—Press Association. ■ 'Pi I , Wellington, Last Xight. the latest in regard to the local option poll at the llutt is that there aro n\c votes short of the number required tor no-license. There are still 02 absent Voters papers to come in, and telegraphic advices show that SIJ 0 f these votes diuve been recorded.

[ CONTINUANCE. i* Continual,ee was carried ill Christi. '• lluiiinui, and Wairau. The voting was as follows: Cont. Red'n. N.-L. ' hri-li'iiurcli 07j|j x7n HIJ^I 2(i.'lll ]!M7 2020 I liutuuii o.'ltSo 2ifc»!) THE N1 i\V NO-LICENSE DISTRICTS. 'THE PRESENT POSITION.

1,10 rctll ™s for the lociil option poll arc as yet incomplete, but it is stated that lio-liconse has been carried in -,t aro- V( '" " CW < ' ,cctorM « s - Those WELLINGTON SOUTH, WELLINGTON SUBURBS HUTT. MASTERTON, EDEN. - OIIINEMURI.

BRUCE. In addition to those, non-restoration lias bee;i carried ill: " invercargill. MATAURA. CLUTIIA. OAMARU. ASHTU'RTO.V GREY LYNN. I Reduction has been carried in: - AUCKLAND CITY. I !)! \KDIX C.I TV. DUNE I) I X SOUTH. CHALMERS.

'I lie no-license vote in Maslcrfon has more than doubled i(s>lf since lsim. |i was 1-123 in flint voa". 2001 in ISOH 1000 in 1002. 2»HO in 1005, and ' S.Y> in' 100 S.