VOTING RESULTS FOR LISTENERS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 505, 25 February 1949, Page 7

VOTING RESULTS FOR LISTENERS

FTER New Zealanders have voted in the Off-Course Betting and Licensing Hours polls on. Wednesday, March 9, they will be able to sit back in their armchairs and listen to halfhourly progress reports on the» results from the main National and Commercial stations. To provide listeners with a complete radio coverage of the preliminary count of votes in the polling booths, stations 1YA, 2YA, 3YA, 4YA, 2YZ, 3YZ, and 4YZ will be linked to give reports at 7.25 p.m., 8.0 p.m., 8.30 p.m., 8.55 p.m., 9.25 p.m., 10.0 p.m., 10.30 p.m., 10.55 p.m., and 14.20 p.m. If the issues are still in doubt after the 11.20 p.m. broadcast, station 2YA will remain on the air until the final returns come in. Stations 1ZB, 2ZB, 3ZB, 4ZB, and 2ZA will also broadcast the returns as they come to hand, starting at 7.30 p.m. and continuing every half-hour thereafter until the conclusion of results for the night. In the off-course betting poll, electors will vote either for or against the proposal that provision should be made for off-course betting through the totalisator, by means to be provided by the New Zealand Racing and Trotting Con- ferences. A bare majority only is required to decide the vote.

In the licensing hours poll, electors must vote either for 6 o'clock closing or for 10 o’clock closing. The issue is that hotels shall be open for the sale of liquor either between 9.0 a.m. and 6.0 p.m. as at present, or for a_ total of nine hours, at times to be decided, between 10.0 a.m. and 10.0 p.m. In addition, electors in the Geraldine, Ashburton, and King Country districts will vote on a third issue. The King Country poll is to determine whether licences for the sale of liquor shall be issued. The Maori votes and the European votes will be counted separately, and a 60 per cent. majority of each is required to carry the issue, not a 60 per cent. majority of the combined vote. King Country voters will also vote for or against Trust Control, a bare majority being all that is required to carry the ‘issue in this case. In Ashburton, electors will vote to decide whether licences for the sale of liquor shall be restored, a 60 per cent. majority being required, and for or against Trust Control, a bare majority only being necessary. In Geraldine, electors will also vote for or against restoration, but as this district originally lost its licence through a change in the electoral boundaries, and not through 4 vote, a bare majority only is required to carry the issue. electors will also vote for or against Trust Control. Oe