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Return showing the Number of Votes recorded, &c., in each Licensing District, at the Local-option Poll taken under the Provisions of "The Alcoholic Liquors Sale Control Act, 1893," in the Month of March, 1894.

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Publicans' Licenses. Accommodation Licenses. Bottle Licenses. Total Number of who voted at ] Persons Poll. Number District. Besult of Poll. Boll. For Continuance. For Be- For no duction. License. E^or Continuance. For Be- For no duction. License. For Continuance. For Beduction. For no License. Men. Women. Total. Votes. Bay of Islands Marsden Waitemata Eden Auckland City Parnell Manukau* Franklin .. Waipa Waikato Thames Bay of Plenty Waiapu 3,095 3,031 3,691 3,939 15,121 3,709 3,225 3,320 2,970 2,335 3,066 2,969 4,070 388 235 325 215 621 193 94 72 73 69 397 76 142 248 486 202 919 211 389 220 298 214 644 194 76 57 58 57 347 66 114 235 464 191 946 220 114 208 268 202 625 189 67 67 53 52 297 67 178 247 480 197 1,015 224 630 430 388 349 1,504 376 ■ 144 726 725 337 1,021 1,039 1,040 199 153 777 174 748 229 103 337 301 150 649 466 446 829 583 1,165 523 2,252 605 247 1,063 1,026 487 1,670 1,505 1,486 117 220 39 315 125 Void. « 389 476 220 324 496 213 85 119 65 211 254 102 330 234 160 718 315 1,171 348 473 229 337 505 235 78 75 37 167 193 88 298 192 156 716 277 1,163 286 372 209 70 97 40 318 240 165 '206 473 '411 -218 "89 M79 395 Both proposals rejected. Void. Hawke's Bay Napier "Waipawa 578 128 620 597 298 214 736 341 727 578 597 736 578 597 736 850 236 1,316 305 531 650 1,155 767 1,966 1,286 3,438 3,860 4,027 582 131 '598 521 131 '717 *284 New Plymouth Egmont Patea 3,781 2,821 2,797 1,232 777 721 82 46 116 807 527 481 1,220 785 697 68 43 96 808 511 456 1,172 761 642 56 41 89 807 530 483 1,494 940 1,043 819 410 485 2,313 1,350 1,528 135 To continue as at present. Masterton.. Wairarapa 4,077 3,613 722 727 184 183 546 701 696 695 116 143 519 674 670 674 112 138 565 712 1,208 1,267 482 700 1,690 1,967 (238p.) \ 349 a. \ (343b.) (355p.) ] 454a. I (453 b.) 117 188 281 Void. Wanganui Eangitikei Palmerston Otaki Wellington City Wellington Suburbs .. 3,980 4,140 3,792 2,562 15,017 3,609 1,301 733 825 253 3,582 574 114 101 200 86 1,284 217 610 488 627 290 3,497 786 1,305 719 664 84 82 140 538 489 655 1,194 677 638 117 85 113 592 517 711 1,357 1,038 1,079 559 5,524 1,082 722 440 623 243 4,159 838 2,079 1,478 1,702 802 9,683 1,920 Continue as at present. Void. '465 199 680 '420 'l74 '729 1,320 292 Reduction. Void.