EARLY CLOSING.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14143, 21 July 1916, Page 6

EARLY CLOSING.

NEW SOUTH WALES REFEREN- . . .. DUM FIGURES.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received July 20, 10.25 p.m.) Sydney, July 20.

The- final figures in' connection with the liquor referendum are as follows: —

For six o'clock closing: 347,494. Seven o'clock: 4830.' Eight o'clock: 21,134. Nine o'clock: 178,842. ■ ' Ton o'clock: 1445. Eleven o'clock: 3193. The men voters outnumbered the women by 36,116. The absolute majority required to give effect to any hour was 278,450, six o'clock closing being carried with a surplus of nearly 70,000.