THE NO-LICENSE POLL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 246, 17 October 1910, Page 5

THE NO-LICENSE POLL.

LIQUOR PAETY JUBILANT. (Received 10.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The liquor party is jubilant over what it claims as a strong set-back to the nolicense movement. Canon Boyce admits that his party has not received the support anticipated from the electors. The results of the local option poll are not yet complete, and it will be some days before final returns are made up, but the latest figures, instead of improving tb,e no-license position, as the party hoped, point strongly in the opposite direction. The figures indicate that many electorates, which at the last polls voted reduction, are reverting to continuance. On the present incomplete figures, only 13 electorates favour reduction. At the last polls 64 districts declared in favour of reduction. The.latest returns from AHowrie make it appear that the constituency carried no-license, but the complete count may alter the result.

At the last poll reduction was carried in 64 out of the 90 electorates, and continuance in the other 26. A bare majority, carries either continuance or reduction, but to carry no-license there must be a three-fifths majority, and a vote of at least 30 per cent of the electors on the rolL These conditions were not complied with in any case.