THE LICENSING LAW.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9648, 13 November 1909, Page 3

THE LICENSING LAW.

FIFTY-FIVE HUNDREDTHS

MAJORITY.

INTERESTNG FIGURES. What electorates would have carried No-License at the last polling had the fifty-five-hundredths majority only been needed instead of the three fifths majority as at prasent? That is the question which will occur to many on conning over the proposed amendments to the Licensing Act. The undermentioned are the electorates which carried Continuance, but would have lost it under the new provosal (a 55-100ths majority) :

On the above figures (assuming that the votes cast for Reduction were equally divided), Wellington and Otago and Southland would, gays the "Dominion," have carried NoLicense had the proposed majority basis been in operation last year. The percentage for the whole of the Dominion in favour jot JNo-License wis 53.45.

AUCKLAND. Electorate. Valid For Novotes. License. Percentage. Parnell 6,509 3,646 Waitemata 5,941 3,369 Manakau 5,725 3,404 Franklin 4,364 2.470 56.U1 56.70 59.45 56.59 HAWKES' BAY. Waipawa 4,911 2,724 55.46 TARANAKI. Egmont 4,674 2,672 59.57 WELLINGTON. Hutt 6,036 3,619 59.95 CANTERBURY. Kaiapoi 5,410 3,002 Geialdine 4,812 2,682 Waitaki 4,304 2,729 55.48 55.73 55.64 OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND. Dunedin City 20,633 11,686 Chalmers 5,130 2,951 Taieri 4,637 2,761 Dunedin S. 7,376 4,083 56.63 57.52 59.54 55.35 The provincial percentagi es were as follow: — Auckland Hawke's Bay Taranaki Wellington EG 21 49.20 51.65 54.82 Nelson, Marlborough, and Westland Canterbury Otago anu Southland 46.99 50.61 55 84