WATER AND DRAINAGE
KARORI AND ONSLOW PROPOSALS CARRIED. -
Although there is one more return to come from Newtown Library in connection with the polls on the Karori and Onslow water and drainage loan proposals, it cannot affect the result, which is overwhelmingly in favour of the scheme in each case. The polls, both upon these issues and the Kelburn tram issue, were remarkable for the number of informal votes cast, large numbers of ratepayers marking a cross against the issues they favoured instead of erasing the other line. In. the recount of the votes cast; however, wherever the intention of the voter is clear the vo£e will be taken as valid.' The total number of' names on the Karori and Onslow ratepayers' rolls were 1076 and 1122 respectively. ;Detailed.results, with one return to come, are as follow:— KARORI WATER AND DRAINAGE. For. Against. Jenkins's Store, Karori ... 135 7 Old Council Chambers, Karori 173 20: Town Hall 87 3 Sydney street 32 1 427 31 Majority for .'. 396 ONSLOW WATER AND DRAINAGE. For. .Againßt. Ngaio 146 16 Khandallah 170 17 Kaiwarra 22 4' Town Hall 84 7 Sydney street 46 0 468 44. Majority for 424
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 99, 27 April 1923, Page 8
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195WATER AND DRAINAGE Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 99, 27 April 1923, Page 8
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