THE LIQUOR POLL.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Jan. 9. With reiefence to tho Sydney cable containing the Rev. ..Hammond's remarks on the prohibition referendum, the Rev. Dawsou (secretary of the New Zealand Alliance) says that there miist have been sonic confusion iii the minds of the Australian organisers when they left on the clay after the poll as'there was in the minds of man;. others on polling day. There was a goot deal of confusion in regard to the absent voters' permits Irom no-license electorates: In several electorates .identity-returning oIU eers refused to give these absent voters tw< voting papers on national prohibition ant local restorai'ion. which, of com so, appliec only to Nc-license electorates," It has beei revealed by the official eount that 363 pbr sons did not get the local restoration paper
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1719, 9 January 1920, Page 6
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134THE LIQUOR POLL. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1719, 9 January 1920, Page 6
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