No-License Meeting.
(Per Press Association) Dunbdin, This day. At a no-license meeting, held at Milton last night, it was resolved on the motion of the Rev. P. B. Fraser that this meeting of electors for Bruce protest against the voiding of the licensing election by a magistrate ou unsubstantial and purely technical grounds. It was resolved that a petition be presented to Parliament at the earliest opportunity to validate the poll, as the' magistrate who conducted the recount and held the enquiry has plainly and finally declared that the required majority of three-fifths unmistekeably declared the will of the electqrs of Bruce ; that irregularities and technicalities did not effect the result, and that this meeting pledges itself to resist every attempt to get behind the polls, and to demand a free poll for a free people,
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Bush Advocate, Volume XIV, Issue 303, 24 March 1903, Page 2
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136No-License Meeting. Bush Advocate, Volume XIV, Issue 303, 24 March 1903, Page 2
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