NATIONAL OPTION POLL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10958, 26 December 1911, Page 6

NATIONAL OPTION POLL.

(Pek Press Association.) Christchurch, December 2-1,

The final figures on the national prohibition issue in the Christchurch licensing district are: Against national prohibition 10,668, for national prohibition 12,268, informal 571. In connection with the licensing issues of local option and national prohibition, it- may be noted that in all 47,603 voting papers came under the notice of the returning! officers and the scrutineers. This is the biggest count in *he history of the city, and the time it occupied was five days. A large proportion of informal papers had both issues struck out or both left untouched, indicating that the voters concerned did not wish to vote on tho licensing issues.