EVEN POLLING.
ON LOAN PROPOSAL. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, April 22. There was a remarkable result of a loan poll conducted by the Glen Eden Town Board on a proposal to borrow £3500 for the erection of a town hall for the district. Of 570 ratepayers on the roll 220 voted, 110 for the proposal and 110 against. There were no informal votes and no more votes are to’ come. The result is a preliminary one, and an official count is to be held. There was some difference of opinion as to what the procedure would be if the result was still a tie after the official count. It was pointed out by a solicitor, however, that the Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1926, provided that in case of boroughs or town districts “a majority of the total valid votes recorded shall suffice to carry the proposal.” A case of equal voting had occurred in Newmarket in 1930; when it was held that as a majority was required the proposal had been lost. In this instance a second poll on the proposal was held three months later when there was a majority of two to one against the loan.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 121, 23 April 1936, Page 2
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198EVEN POLLING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 121, 23 April 1936, Page 2
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