LICENSING POLL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1919, Page 2

LICENSING POLL.

SOLDIERSVOTES/ ’ (United Preia "Aasoclatioa. } M’;EIGINCT.ON 3 Feb. ■&/; A Gaiettee Exlraormhafy contains the following amending; regulations as to taking the votes' of iriembet’s- of the, ExpediCidiiar’y Forces for lm,\ ■special' licensing poll; *• , ' ’ 1. For the purpose f of the * poll J to be tiiken' in Great Britain piirtuarib to the principal ’regulations ,tbe Jligh, Commissiorier shall, wherever in' his opinion it 1?' practicable so tri* do,’ appoint two scrutineers' at edch Spoiling place. 2, (IjGlaus© 18 of the principal regulations' is "hrireby 'revoked. (2j “Except a« ,‘prpvidcd ' with' ’fesfjoct 1 to ' the poll in Great Britain and in "'New .Zealand, no person shall be api/riinted to act as a ecrutineer at any ; polling’, place apixiinted for the puriioses' : of "trie principal regulations, ‘ ’. ' ' ’/ ;y. ‘

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'ifisgsr- ;^ r : -•• •. -j—i —-rry. I.i ' (United , TTjftARG, Xfel\ 5. ; Cabinet 'Having deiiidefl ’to permit funds to be raised , for, jvar. memorials in the shape of returned soldiers’ clubs, a meeting of the Timara . War .Memorial Committee and returned soldiers was held. .The meeting differed on the question wriether a soldfe'ra* club" and. a war ■memorial should be conibined, or whether they should be separate schemes. Thg soldiers feared that would injure the club -proposal. After discussion'it was decided ,to- adopt the com-, bined scheme, the building to b© called the 'South Canterbury War Memorial, The cast suggested is £12,000. The ■Returned Soldiers’ Association has eome-liundreds in hand, -and Mr Maling, the (Mayor, who presided at the meeting. promised to give his honorarium (£2oo]/ ■