HUTT LOCAL OPTION POLL.
STOP PRESS NEWS.
AN INTERIM JUDGMENT. i' WELLINGTON, January 19. The Court of Inquiry into the Hurt Local Option poll gave an interim judgnent this afternoon as to the points which ;he respondents had vo answer. The Lourt held that the allegations of the ippointment of partisans of the “trade” is officials were not sustained, nor were, he charges of officers leaving the boothr. luring the polk The Court said there nay have been an irregularity committed n the ballot boxes not being collected on he night of the poll, but that was not an regularity affecting the result of the poll. Ihe Court wished to hear an answer to he charges of gross irregularity at the )(ficial count, of personation, of the dismay of the words ‘’Liberty” 'and ’Beer” on vehicles cn polling day, and if the illegal disposal of beer.
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Evening Star, Issue 13162, 19 January 1909, Page 8
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146HUTT LOCAL OPTION POLL. Evening Star, Issue 13162, 19 January 1909, Page 8
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