BRUCE LICENSING POLL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12618, 23 March 1903, Page 6

BRUCE LICENSING POLL.

TO THE EDITOR. .^V 1 « m °>%»d to Mr Maude lor affording me the opportunity of putting mywfo qi !i e r ,' ?ht i& who, like himself, took my words in a toe, anticipated. Technically "every elector may be every person on the roll alive wh™ \ yftS POpularly and Poetically, when « ballot is taken they only who vote are the elector 3 -the only persons who express an election or choice. For the exITX , o ™\" ,re, i fsfth - 3 of theolectorc s,*°»* *° h*ve voted no-license" will your mdulgent readers permit me to ay less nnstakeably what I think most of them reedgmsed that I intonded-namely that over three-fifthe of the nersons who voted are acknowledged to have voted no license. I can only regret that the -very obvious slip seems to have made Mr Maude so unhappy.. Tour readers will rightly appraise his implication that practically all who did not vote were opposed to nolicense. He can hardly bo proud of them. Only those who vote can exoect to be regarded, and three-fifths of them on any occasion of both a. parliamentary and a local option poll are a sufficiently respectable quantity to survive bein? compared by Mr Maude to the three Tooley street tailors--I am, etc., March 20. Edwaed Waikek.