A LOCAL OPTION PROBLEM.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10764, 12 May 1911, Page 4

A LOCAL OPTION PROBLEM.

WHAT DOES CONTINUANCE MEAN? [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received May 11, at 7.40 p.m. Sydney, May 11. . Tile full Court reserved its', judgment in an important case arising out of the late local option poll. At the 1907 elect;on the Leichardt electors voted reduction, and at the last election voted continuance. The point at issue is whether the last nullified the previous vote, giving the hotels voted' out m 1907 the right to keep open. The case was a test one. Altogether 172 hotels ,are affected,. ,representing property 'valued at neatly, .£IOO,OOO.