PROHIBITION IN ASHBURTON.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 675, 12 February 1903, Page 20

PROHIBITION IN ASHBURTON.

The hearing of the petition against the recent local option poll at Asl?rburton concluded on Thursday, before Mr 0. A. Wray, S.M. All the grounds of the petition were abandoned except those dealing with the alleged over-crowding of two smaller polling booths, and the non-simultaneous delivery of local option and electoral voting papers.. The former ground was practically abandoned yesterday, and the legal argument centred in the second. Evidence was given that at two booths officers handed voters local option papers first and electoral papers afterwards,, although no inconvenience was caused thereby. <>The Magistrate’s decision was reserved.