BOROUGH LOAN POLLS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9169, 18 August 1908, Page 5

BOROUGH LOAN POLLS.

. BOTH PROPOSALS REJECTED. There was not a groat deal of interest shown by ratepayers in the poll taken by the Borough Council in connection with the proposal to borrow £40,000 for drainage extension, and loan conversion purposes, and ,£7,500 tor the purchase of the Dixon street Showgrounds. By noon barely 100 ratepayers had recorded their votes, and when the poll closed 553 votes out of 1,444 on the roll had been recorded. There were only two booths, the Drill Hall and Kuripuni Fire Brigade Station. The poll closed at 7 p.m., «md the result was a"nouncedby the Returning Officer (Mr W. T.Mansfield, Acting Town Cleric), at 7.45. The proposals were both rejected, the drainage loan by the narrow margin of 17 votes, and the Showground's proposal by 74 vot;s. The details are as follow: — DRAINAGE LOAN. Drill KuriHa'l. puni. Tl. Against the proposal 237 42 279 For the proposal 216 46 262 Majority against 17 There were 12 informal votes cast on this proposal. SHOWGROUNDS PURCHASE. Against 255 49 304 For 139 41 230 Majority against 74 On this proposal 13 informal votes were recorded. There was a liltle knot of about 30 persons gathered to hear the result of the poll, which was received in «tcny silence. Only one Borough Councillor was present, and no speeches were made, the little crowd melting away silently immediately after the result was made known.