MASTERTON LOCAL OPTION POLL.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12408, 25 November 1908, Page 4

MASTERTON LOCAL OPTION POLL.

ATTEMPT TO GET.THE POLL INVALIDATED. Masterton, Nov. 24. In an interview with a credible authority to-day, the "Wairarapa cAge" reporter was informed tbat it ;waa absolutely certain that a petition is to be lodged on behalf of-tee [Licensed victuallers of the 'electorate [to declare the local option poll at |;Masterton invalid. Tho grounds for the application were not divulged. jfTbe pressman was informed that jfcbey. would net be available to the ipublic until the return from Wellington cf Mr C. A Pownall, solicitor for the licensed victuallers, who is away on Supreme Court business.