Licensing Legislation.

Hastings Standard, Volume XIII, Issue 4312, 16 November 1909, Page 6

Licensing Legislation.

WHAT THE 55 PER CENT MEANS. Mr Nicholls, a leader in temperance matters in Dunedin when interviewed by ai "Evening Star'j. reporter, produced a table to show what would have been the result at the 1908 vote (in addition to the six areas that carried No-licens.e) if the voting had been on a 55 per cent basis: — Publicans*" Licenses Eliminated Places over 55 per cent — Marsden ... ... ... 13 "ranklin ... .... ... 10 Waitemata ... ... ... II Egmont ... ... ... 8 Wairarapa ... ... ... If Hutt 15 Kaiapoi ... ... ... 9 Geraldine ... ... ... IS Waitaki 19 Warpawa ... ... ... 19 Manukau, beyond Reduction 12 Parnell. beyond Reduction 9 Chalmers, beyond Reduction ... ... ... 9 Dunedin City, beyond Reduction .... ... ... 30» Dunedin South, beyond^Reduction... ... ... lo> laieri, beyond Reduction... II Total 218 Add closed by three-fifths... 107 Total bars closed bv 55 per cent vote and Reduction 324 Thus, said Mr NichoHs, it will be seen that if the extra majority required had been reduced by 5 percent the total number of electorates under No-license would now be twenty eight instead of 12. as at present, and the number of licenses extinguished would have been 324, instead of 107 as at present. In the case of those electorates that carried reduction I only reckoned the extra number of licenses that would have been affected.