The Prohibition Vote at the Licensing Elections.
(By Telegraph -Press Association.) Auckland, Wednesday, Figures supplied by the Secretary of the New Zealand Alliance to-day with reference to the result of the licensing elections throughout the Co> lony show that close on half the electors in the Colony recorded their votes on the local option question, Out of GO electoral and licensing districts in the Colony the returns for about 50 are so far to hand, the remaining ones being small country districts of minor I account,
In tiles'* fifty districts 98,158 votes were reoorded on the question of the continuance, reduction, or prohibition of. li« censes to sell liquor. The actual voting figures for these distriots (very nearly the whole of the Colony) are as follows! For the continuance of, publioans' licenses, 87,150 votes; for reduotion of publioans 1 licenses,l4,sßß votes j for abolition of all licenses, 4G ( 414 votes. In the abovo figures informal votes are not included,
The total effective prohibition vote at the election, it is asserted, was not, far short of 60,000 out of an adult population of say 250,000 eligible voters,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4699, 19 April 1894, Page 2
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186The Prohibition Vote at the Licensing Elections. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4699, 19 April 1894, Page 2
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