LOCAL OPTION.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12405, 21 November 1908, Page 6 (Supplement)

LOCAL OPTION.

OHINJeMURI. . No license -was carried by 77, [.with 25 absentee papers to come" in. "■' ' ; i "■•■•' CARTERTON. Continuance, 2352; reduction, 1831 : no license, 2775. Continuance carried. - TAIERI. Continuance, 184;J; reduction, 2397: no license 2709. ' Reduction carried, the poll being 47 short of no license. PAHIATUA. Continuance, 1796 ; reduction, 1340; no license. 2282; informal, 41. No liceri&e is short by ]66. : MOTUEKA. Cod tin uance, 1799 ; , reduction, 1240 ; no license, 1617. DUNEDIN LICENSING POLL. Dunedin, .Nov. 18. The no license party are considering whether the Dunedin poll cannot be voided on the ground of alleged offences jcommitted by the liquor party. ! " PARNELL. ■ Continuance, 2644 ; reduction, 3394 ; no license, 3624. Some returns still to come. Reduction is probable, and no license .is still possible. :-■ -. ,' -.;. ■-.'-EDEN.- ■ ..." - It- is stated -that no license., is carried by a majority of 167 votes. Tne check count and scrutiny will have to take place before say thing definite is known. WAITEMATA _ Continuance. 2450; reduction, 2943; no license, 3328. It is believed that reduotiob is lost by 19 votes, and no license by 226. WELLINGTON SUBURBS The seamen's rights and absent voters' papers have inoreased the no license majority in the Wellington suburbs electorate to 33 DUNEDIN SOUTH Continuance 3221 ; reduction 3700; no license 4048 Reduction' was carried by 42 votes. BEUOE Contin uanoe 1868 ; reduction 2434 ; no license 2968 No license.hasbeen' carried .by ,3o votes. Twenty permits have yet to be accounted for but they cannot alter the result AUCKLAND OITY. .[.There were 18,951 votes recorded in the Auckland City electorates. As regards the no license poll, it is believad that reduction has been carried. There are still 384 seamen's and absent voters* papers to come in, and if the whole of these is added to the continuance vote (8419) it will be brought up to' 8803, as against 9560 voted for reduction. " MANAKAU. Continuance, 2254; reduction, 3220; nc license, 3559. Some returns have yet to come. Reduction is likely, but there js still a possibility of no license being carried. ■ HAWKES'BAY Continuance, 3040; reduction, 1497; no license, 2476. Continuance carried.