RE LICENSING POLL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143670, 14 December 1911, Page 4

RE LICENSING POLL.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —The figures given by “ Democrat” in, the Herald of 11th are more ( of a tangle than your 38.854, given jin a previous issue. Tho total num- ; her ot votes cast was 436,616. Thrcoi fifths of this number were required to carry national prohibition, wiiich would ho 261,969}. Number polled for prohibition 242,543, leaving 19,426} short of three-fifths.’ So that if 19,127 of the people who polled against prohibition had cast their vote for it. it would have been carried.—l am, etc., STUART ENGLEFIELD. (To tho Editor.) Sir, —It seems to me that Mr. E. Whittle is all at sea with his figures re prohibition vote. The total number of votes recorded cannot be altered, therefore if 19.427 more votes had been cast for prohibition, there would have been 19,427 less against it, and it would have boon carried.—l am, etc., STUART ENGLEFIELD.