OAMARU HARBOUR LOIN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2856, 9 December 1908, Page 37

OAMARU HARBOUR LOIN.

THE POLL CHALLENGED. (Fxom Our Own Correspondent.) (JAMARU, December 3. Two petitions have been lodged against the declaration of the result of the recent poll on the Harbour Board proposal to borrow £50,000. One petition asks for a recount on the grounds that at the poll a number of people voted who were not entitled to do so ; that certain persons gave more votes than they were entitled to ; and that the count at one booth (Incholme) was incorrect. Wherefore the petitioners pray that the proposal be declared carried. The second petition alleges all the above grounds, and in addition that a number of persons applied for voting papers but were refused them, and not allowed to vote, and, further, that public notice of the poll was not given 14 days before. Wherefore it is prayed that the proposal be declared carried, or the poll be declared void. December 6. The Oamaru Harbour Board's Standing Committee has aeked Mr J. Blair Mason, of tile Otago Harbour Board, to visit Oamavu and report on Mr W. H. Patterson's dredging proposals. Mr Mason arrived her© by the second express on Saturday for tne purpose of conferring with Mr Patterson and the board's officers and committee. The date for the hearing of the petitions against the result of the recent harbour loan poll lias been fix€<T for the 15th inst. before Mr T. Hutchison, S.M. .