LICENSING QUESTION
REASON FOR TWO POLLS. (Published by Arrangement.) We have been asked to state the reason for a second poll in one year on the licensing question, as many voters jvere out of the Dominion -when the arrangement was made. There was a general demand for a poll, none having taken place since 1914, and two monster petitions', each bearing over two hundred thousand signatures, were presented "to Parliament last year, one from the Efficiency League and Prohibition Party, asking that the ballot paper be in harmony with the report of tEe Government Efficiency Board's recomendation, the other from the Trade asking for a poll -with the ballot-paper as at present before the public. Both petitions were received, considered together, and granted by Parliament, the one poll to be taken in April last, every soldier to he given opportunity to vote, and the other poll to be taken at the following Parliamentary election. It should be stated that all parties interested took for-granted, and supported from the first the fullest opportunity for the soldiers' vote being recorded. .'•' £* ! -291 a
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Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14241, 16 December 1919, Page 5
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180LICENSING QUESTION Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14241, 16 December 1919, Page 5
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