CONTROL OF LIQUOR TRADE
POLLS IN MASTERTON DISTRICT (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 28. The Minister of Justice, Mr Mason, announced to-day that regulations were made last week by the Governor-General-iu-Oouncil providing for the taking of polls in the former Masterton 110-license district on the issue whether electors favoured the control of the liquor, trade by a trust or trusts representative of and in the interests of the local inhabitants. Owing to geographical considerations, it will be necessary to take the poll in three separate areas of the former Masterton 110-license district, and for this purpose the district is divided as follows: —(1) The Akitio portion of the district, comprising the County of Akitio; (2) the Eketahuna portion, comprising the Borough of Eketahuna and the County of Eketahuna; and (3) the southern portion of the district, which comprises the Borough of Masterton, the County of Mauriceville, and those parts of the Counties of Masterton, Wairarapa South, and Castlepoint which are included in the former nolicense district. The poll, will be merely an indication of the wishes of the electors, and | will have no legal effect until the legis- | lative provision is made when Parliament opens. The poll will indicate whether trust control is or is not favoured in the particular part of the district in which an elector is entitled to vote. For the purposes of the poll, the existing electoral rolls for the Pahiatua and Wairarapa electorates will be used, together with a supplementary roll, which will contain the names of electors who have become entitled to vote since the last General Election. The existing rolls will be suitably marked to indicate which electors are entitled to vote and in which of the three areas the vote is to be recorded. ■ The Minister proposes to fix Wednesday, May 28, as the date for taking the poll, and notification to this effect will be published in the ‘ Gazette ’ on May 8, on which date the supplementary rolls will close.
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Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 9
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327CONTROL OF LIQUOR TRADE Evening Star, Issue 26087, 29 April 1947, Page 9
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