LOCAL OPTION POLL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 197, 14 May 1908, Page 9

LOCAL OPTION POLL.

1 i JHB.rQUESp6'?f; OF CONTROL. ",'.lTho--*qiicstion ; Vof 'the control of tlio local"! polls in.thoWjurarapa.and Masterton , 'dsctorates- hai- boon, one; which hijs in the ; v past .caused a large amount of dissatisfaction';.;..": to tlio local authorities, the.JiVairarapa and ■•.Mastertbh, Count/ Cpuncils.'V- Their, autho,rity.' goes only ,t9',tho. footingi:the bill' after ;*-4 tho' electipus." have ■ taken-, place, and their ;complaint aS:\they • havo ■ ..- .1 . ■ito; pay ant!. not', the Returning ■ officers, ' shoukj l iittVo>"tKp..suj)fervisioii'of' the:poll- so . .far as..expojiscs^a^i&icerned.!;At tho last -.- general: our Wairarapa correspondent,. boffi. counties objected to pay tho bills of costs. On a previous occasion" the \Waiwitapfti.Coiintjr •'Council carried itsobjection ; to.-tlfc law : ' courts, but was: over- - ruicfl. .'The/ principal cau'so for complaint fexpenses. ;. its?' meeting , on Tuesday tho question wasftgaiiiv .'discussed.,. by 'the; Masterton•• ■ County .Council.- ■. ' "'. 1 The ; following, motion, proposed by Cr, \V.' J. -Welch j and seconded* by Cr. W. Harris, - vas -carried:—''That, in -view 1 of tho approaching.local option poll in November, next, ; this ;;committeo recommends-the Council; to .' direct that the Government •be '.'asked to define what powdrs the. Council,'as the con■'trolling local authority ill'this licensing dis'irict, can exorcise , under ; Section 9 of the' Alcoholic . Liquors Sale Control Act, 1893, | with .'.regard to the'appointment' of deputy returning' officers, poll clerks, and general ;.' ( control of the poll. That failing any. defiiu'te reply thereto being received, the opinion of - 'the; county'solicitor be taken on the quostio'n,' and that for this purpose the Clerk bo directed'to weporo a schedule of the .-nam- • "her of' polling "booths which in his opinion should be sufiicient for the taking of a satisfactory poll in this district, and submit there-' ' with a schedule as reasonable fees -for re- ; numeration of tho services in this connection 'Of .the returning officer, his deputies, poll. . '•'clerks;-and-assistants, ; and i>roscribo\a limit'' - v : £ to tho number and length' of insertions 'of. tho • necessary; advertisements. relating to tlia-' ■ poll." < "••