LICENSING POLL.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1919, Page 5

LICENSING POLL.

THE CONTINUANCE MAJORITY.

CONTINUANCE LEADING., MAJORITY OP 1590. fiETUBNS STILL INCOMPLETE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The latest figures in the Natio. 1 fieferendum are:— Continuance -.. .. . . ... 217,161 State Control . 28,737 Prohibition ........y 244,30? Majority for Continuance 1590 Four districts to come, and seamen ahd soldiers' votes.

IABGE DISCREPANCY IN RETURNS. # MANY VOTES TO COME. (By Wire.-jOwn Correspondent.) Wellington, Last Night. The result of the licensing poll will be 1* doubt for some time, but fhe figures available late to-night indicate that the continuance issue has an advantage. Fjuhibition Party say that continuance and State purchase combined gW* a majority against prohibition of -fW rotes. 4 The official returns make the Jnajotity ajjout 1400, but there appears to be an error of 1000 in the official returns from Waikato. The probibitionfato state that their total in Waikato jwas 4214. The official return is 3216, there is a discApancy of about 1000 between the electoral votes ana the wcensing rotes in the official Waikato so the prohibitionists probably Are rig&t. There are still some small returns to come front districts, alid there are about 20j000 votes to be counted, comprising soldiers, seaSneh, and absent voters. The »fflci»l. estimate of the dumber of soldiers. voting abroad and at sea is ■Sm9. TO# number of seamen's permits '8 .about 18D0, and the number of absent voters permits issued is about 16,000. The number of permits actually issued will hot be known until" the amcM c(*mts are made. This will not be until after the holiday?. In some cases the number of absent voters is much larger than usual. Absent voters have tended in the past to give a margin in favor of prohibition, but soldiers are expected to show a big majority for continuance. The chances are now in favor of continuance, owing to thfl ftilttfe of prohibition to score ail absolute Majority of the votes polled.

UNOFFICIAL FIGURES.

iIAJORITI* MAY BE ONLY 404. By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The districts from wSwh official returns have not been received are Waitemata, Hurunui, Bruce and Kaiapoi. BetoHß received by the New Zealand AUlxie* give the prohibition total for these four electorates as 12,600 and the comforted continuance and State conttel total as 12,114. These figures, addr*£.l° tl,e totals, make it appear tfiat thft Majority against prohibition at (resent is 1404. ItMMng likely, however, that there is wrpr fat the official figures from WaiJH-"« tiwt the prohibition total be ft thousand greater than reamed. This would bring the majority against prohibition t 0 404 votes. Over 2000 soldiiw have still to be •Minted, and there ar e about 1800 seaton g permits and 16,000 absent voters fwraut* flfr'lMue. The soldiers include I37»tft sea and about 700 in England 2? fr"®?- Vote * cast b 7 seamen and 4M«tt votel* will be counted when the <meul counts are token.

LATEST OFFICIAL FIGURES. following are the detailed figures corwcted last night:-*,

THE WAITOMO SEAT.

DETAILS OF 1019 (April) POLL.

Details of the polling on Nation! Prohibition in the separate fclectoratt on loth April, 1919, are:— District. Con. Pri Bay of Islands ~....... 2334 26C Marsden . 2128 315 Kaipara .......... 223S 254 Waitemata ............. 3626 *403 Eden 381? 602 Auckland East 3754 286 Auckland Central ' 3713 218 Auckland West .... 3798, 395 Grey Lyirn ..-. v 3781 .493 Parnell 3852 476 Manukau .-.m.-. 4135 J56» Franklin ................. 2695 409 Raglan ........i.-......... 2760 380 Thames .......>.,..1.. 2301 263; Ohinemuri . 2339 . 207 Tauranga ........... 3185 36ft Waikato 3309 441; Bay of Plenty 334S 307 i Taumarunui ............ 3352 287 1 Gfeborne 3776 ,tß3i Hawke's Bay 3978 395! Napier 3868 3821 Waipawa 3010 281) Pahiatua 2307 2271 Masterton 2751 278< Wairarapa 2846 242, Stratford 1954 277' Taranaki 2668 391! Egmorit 2265 2691 Patea 2843 373! Wanganui 4011 44>21 W&imarino ..v 2954' 200f

Oroua 2319 286( Rangftikei ,-... 2508 24fc Palmerston .....v.. 3537 4*298 Otaki 2375 252S Hntt 3875 3317 Wellington North . 4931 350 C Wellington Central .' 4356 262S Wellington East 4159 411 C Wellington South ........ -3879 3745 Wellington Suburbs ..... 3882 3445 Kelson 3168 3(121 Motueka _ ....... 2613 1925 fttHer .•.'... i .w.vA.. 2413 1087 Grey • 3324 1878 Westland .... .. . 3101 1454 Wairau 3072 2799 tTtirunui 2804 1705 Kaiapoi 2759 2598 Christchurch N. 4363 4(596 Christchurch E. 4096 2828 Christchurch S. . .'. r ,.. 3515 3780 Riccarton ..tj to .... 3456 3461 Avon 3786 4436 Lrttelton 3097 3183 F.llesmere 2536 2089 Selwyn 2817 2192 Ashburton . .vst.v«.«ov. . 3008 2562 Timaru 3061 4174

r r«mnka ... . . . 2724 2489 Waitaki .-.tv. . r .-.-jsvr 2325 2656 Oamaru —2566 3191 Otago Central 2196 2345 'Dunedin North 2770 4469 Dunedin West .. , 3085 3986 Dunedin South ......... 3457 4708 Chalmers 2053 3792 Brace .. 2073 2454 Clutha ..... .'.-...v... 177(7 2465 Wakatipu 2187 1930 Matauta . . T . 2233 2772 Wallace —...-.vrtr.-... 2252 2011 Inrercargill 3280 4307 Awarua 2187 2389

Tot&la ............ 282,208 248,104 Number of Valid Votes recorded by Members of Expeditionary Force. United Kingdom 15,875 3,953 France 442 49 Egypt ............ 1,853 444 Samoa- 100 35 New Zealand 3,886 1,482 On board troopships ... 9,825 2,738 Totals ; 31,981 7,723 Grand totals ..... 264,189 253,827 Majority for Continuance, 10,362 ••

Auckland (Ea«, West Gon. S.G. Pro. ,«4 Cental) to 71 ™ **WH Eden "985 1015 10788 3239 305 4649 3130 425 295 321 403 415 297 369 3M 4938 3614 4098 4356 1938 2371 2593 3266 M«nucau 3955 3114 3303 ao55 2175 2257 '525&ai". Mandes ' JrajHta.............. «sr pS ~. •::::::: *«Pkr Hawke'g Bay ........ Waipawa Stratford ... ........ 2246 2310 477 332 2520 2902 3189 2780 3602 3797 J 807 2908 722 346 486 872 477 623 2585 4126 3050 2669 2305 2436 3490 3485 3092 2274 625 528 477 201 3595 3436 2937 3472 Egmont TKMrtW 3567 3702 2X1 303 3065 4305 aSffr <>»•>••• 3888 231 3655 2819 5*3 2957 r™""® •••••• ■<•.. PaMatoa 2304 2820 256 271 2475 3077 Waswani .,..1T.. Wataarino Wrtla.x— ' ' 2964 454. 3443 3622 309 4023 3140 450 1700 2964 335 2746 ... »S35 340 3148 jinc . 3435 34* 4207 3298 394 2335 2791 463 2451 <■ 4421 770 34i8 w^jUnCtn. 4194 655 4315 694 2691 4642 wSffiSsni*;!!!!!! Welam............... llfuU WWtlM Wairaa Hurnni .......... #>v 3465 558 3869 3566 870 4465 3085 670 3333 for Continuance 2753 385 2756 3819 473 2266 3308 274 3007 2712 20b 2192 : : : : : : : : •9»J '3J j»yo 3708 631 5153 445® 525 5009 3657 510 4182 aglg m MU

AVon 538 4'0Sa Lyttelton <61 3660 Ellesmere .......... ... 3130 3»7 3700 Ashburton ........ 354 2809 Timaru 337 4178 Temuka 436 3057 Waitaki ....... . .... i6j 2085 Oaiparu .... 341 3670 Dunedin Licensing District 869 13844 Dunedin West 321 4381 Dunedin Central..., • 3235 287 4870 Dunedin South 27S 4SS3 Chalmers 130 3M7 Bruce 337 2754 Clutha .v....... W 2003 Mataura 330 .3034 Wallace 243 3613 Invercargill 6^8 4172 Awarua ............. 250 2794

The fallowing details of the licensing poll in the Waltomo district were announced yesterday Con. State C. Pro. Motonul 13 0 23 Tikorangl ............ 32 0 82 Waltara . 349 48 429 Ursnui .... ........... 21 5 90 Okole .... 420 1 35 eMapui .... 27 - 13 Mekau ... 32 4 18 12 27 58 Otewa .... 29 3 20 Ptoplo .... 22 1 8 Waltomo Caves ...... 25 5 31 Awaking 38 13 28 Otorohania 200 25 153 Mokaum 1. 45 5 15 TiHigaporutu • ■ * . 19 1 13 Tata 29 2 5 Waimihl .. 35 4 13 Ta Kultl 462 115 483