PROHIBITION POLL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 1, 11 December 1911, Page 6

PROHIBITION POLL.

“THE WRITING ON THE WALL.”

(Received 11, 10.20 a.ra.) Sydney, December 11. Canon Boyce says the New Zealand Prohibition vote is a magnificent moral victory. In the Empire this generation imd probably seen no greater moral victory. It looked as if tbs next election would mean the death and burial of the whole liquor traffic in New Zealand. The “Daily Telegraph,” commenting on the elections, says a result was a double surprise-—the success of tlio Opposition in making up so much leeway and the strength of the Prohibition vote. The latter suggests that the time is coining when New Zealand will go absolutely dry. When it was within ten thousand votes of the total poll (nearly half a million) required to ensure this, it is a fair conclusion that the writing is on the wall. (Received 11, 10.20 a.m.) Sydney, December 11. The “Herald” says: “The prohibition vote is as remarkable in its way as the Parliamentary polling. Though the three-fifths majority was not secured, it was so near as to give the liquor trade an extremely precarious basis of popular support.” (Per Press Association.) Wellington, December 11. The final figures for the Dominion Prohibition poll are not yet available, returns from Avon and Hurunni not having come to hand.