LICENSING BALLOT PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 13

LICENSING BALLOT PAPERS.

PRINTED WELL IN ADVANCE.

MR. HOLLAND REITERATES CHARGE.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)

HAMILTON, Friday.

Mr. H. E. Holland. Leader of the Opposition, spoke in the Frankton Town Hall to-night on behalf of Mr. F. W. Schramm, the Labour candidate for Hamilton. Mr. Holland's speech was similar to those he has delivered elsewhere. He remarked that at Pukekohe Mr. Coates had referred to his (Mr. Holland's) charge that the Licensing Bill had been brought down after the ballot papers had been printed, and had said that the charge was untrue. Mr. Holland produced Hansard of September 13, and quoted from a speech by the Hon. A. D. McLeod, Minister in charge of the Electoral Department, in which the Minister admitted that 120,000 ballot papers for absent voters had been printed, and that those that were printed provided for a three-issue ballot paper. He further quoted from a communication from the chief electoral officer to the effect that for a licensing poll to be he]d about the middle of November it was necessary that the order to print the ballot papers should not be delayed further than August 9. The meeting was an enthusiastic one, and it accorded a vote of thanks to Mr. Holland and expressed confidence in Mr. Schramm.