The Licensing Vote.

Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 19572, 28 November 1935, Page 2

The Licensing Vote.

FIRST NATIONAL COUNT. PROHIBITION REJECTED. THE THAMES FIGURES. The preliminary count of the votes in the national licensing poll shoAv the folloAA r ing figures:Continuance 427,031 State Control .. 49,133 Prohibition 205,679 Majority against Prohibition ... 270,485 The Thames licensing figures on the preliminary count are: — Continuance 6363 State Control 872 National Prohibition ../ . 3015

NO DRINK PROBLEM. POLL NOT NECESSARY. VIEW OF LICENSE TRADE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 28. Mr. Percy Coyle, general secretary of the National Council of the License Trade, interviewed, said the licensing vote was a clear indication of the feeling of the people. “NeAV Zealand has not got a drink problem,” he declared. “Statistics have shown year by year that the NeAV Zealander is a temperate person, and that there is no need to shackle him Avith such repressive restrictions that prohibition entails. “At successive polls the electors have shoAvn an ever-increasing sentiment against prohibition, and yesterday’s huge majority must surely be taken as an indication that the continuance of these polls is neither necessary nor desirable.”