PETITIONS AGAINST LOCAL OPTION POLLS.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12420, 9 December 1908, Page 3

PETITIONS AGAINST LOCAL OPTION POLLS.

[United Press Association.] Wellington, Dec B. A petition has been 'lodged against * the Wellington Suburbs local option poll. It is urged^ that the ! boundaries ; of the. district: were not properly gazetted and .that no issue : for an increase of licenses- (the -population having increased .by, 25 per cent) was included, in the ballot paper, and that '.., a number of irregularities took place, i The petitioners agajnst the,Maater- . ton local 'option poll are to be; heard on December 16th by Dr A. McArthur, S.M., of Wellington ;,. Mr W. P. James, S.M., of: Masterton ; and Mr A. D. Thomson, S.M.. _oi : Palmersion North.'