WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE AND PROHIBITION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 4 November 1915, Page 8

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE AND PROHIBITION.

DEFEATS AT THIS POLLS

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.

(Received Nov. 4, 10.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 3. The women's suffrage appeal was defeated in Massachusetts by 108,000 majority; in New York by 205,668; in Pennsylvania by 150,000. All the returns are incomplete. Prohibition was defeated in Ohio by about 60,000 majority.

Later.

The final figures in the suffrage voting indicates little relative changes in the majorities. The result is attributed largely to the foreign vote; ateo to the spectacular methods adopted by the suffragettes to obtain a victory.