NO-LICENSE SET-BACK

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7263, 20 October 1910, Page 1

NO-LICENSE SET-BACK

SOME NEW SOUTH WALES FIGURES. PREPONDERATING CONTINUANCE VOTE. As we have, been informed by cable, the returns are far from complete concerning the local option poll taken in New South Wales last Friday. The net result is at present understood to ,be that fourteen districts have carried reduction and none no-license. This enables us to compare the effect of Friday’s voting with that taken in 1907, as follows; — 1907. 1910. ; Districts. Districts. Continuance 25 76 Reduction 61 1 11 Declared ineffective ... 1 90 90 For reasons not apparent the officials in Now South Wales do uot furnish returns of local option voting as promptly as we are accustomed to have them in New Zealand, and in the published reports, strange to say, the essential information—the number of voters—is omitted, so that we are unable at present to discover what percentage of those who went to the poll voted for the different issues. The latest Sydney papers to band are those of last Saturday, and tbey give complete results of only six of the ninety licensing districts. These are of interest if we take them (as may fairly be done) as an indication of the general vote throughout the State. They are; —

The very small vote cast last week for reduction may seem inconsistent with the fact that_ that, issue has been carried in several districts. 'The explanation is that where no-license is not carried tho votes in favour of that issue aro added to those for reduction. For example, in one district for which incomplete, though approximately correct, figures are published, only eleven persons voted for reduction, yet that issue is carried.

Gout. Eeduc. No-Lic. Cif-v aiwl Suburbs— Darlinff Harbour 3,475 354 801 Middle Harbour 2,341 342 1,682 Camperdovni 4,278 527 2.0S2 Petersham 3,031 570 3,495 Bozelle 3.720 552 2,338 Country— Broken. Hill 2.926 49 2,428 Totals 19,761 2,394 12,876 Tho voting in these districts in 1907 was as under;— Cone. Beduc. No-T.ic. Darling Harbour... 2.692 SI 6 877 Middle Harbour ... 3.325 1,993 3,218 Campordown 2,967 1.313 2.054 Petersham 1,413 1.127 2,9.54 Pozcllo 2.971 1,191 2.2*22 Broken, ililt 1,936 125 2,373 Totals 15,504 6,565 13,698