WIN FOR “WETS”
ONTARIO ELECTIONS
ONE HUNDRED AND TEN OUT OF 112 CANDIDATES ELECTED.
(Received Dec. 2, 9.50 n.m.) OTTAWA, Dec. 1. In'the general elections for the Ontario Provincial Legislature the Conservative Government, headed by the Premier (Mr J. H. Ferguson), with the policy of the sale of . liquor under Government supervision as opposed to the present prohibitory Temperance Act, swept the province with 110 elected put of a Legislature of 112 members’. The state of the parties is: 7-5. Liberals 14, Progressives 11. Labor and others 10. There are eighty various political affiliations pledged to Mr Ferguson’s policy. Since 1916 the Ontario Temperance Act has governed the sale of liquor, which is only permitted bv medical prescription.—A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10261, 3 December 1926, Page 5
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