THE OFFICIAL RETURNS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XIV, Issue 834, 1 March 1906, Page 23

THE OFFICIAL RETURNS.

At the-convention of holicense—workers,--held in Wellington Last week, the fallowing resolution was unanimously agreed to:—“This convention of M. colonial nolicense workers regrets notwithstanding the magnitude of the issues involved, the licensing poll returns have at every successive poll been rendered comparatively. valueless by gross inaccuracy, especially in the. matter of the record of valid, votes, and it is greatly disappointed that, despite the reforms made in the Electoral Department., during. the past year, many returning' officers" nave persisted in wfongfully adding invalid voters to the totals returned, thus rendering the whole return incorrect, while the official returns published by authority in the ‘New Zealand Gazette’ of February 15 record the number of valid votes cast instead of the valid voters, a—very gross inaccuracy, and also wrongfuly assert that in no electorate did the returning officer declare continuance carried, whereas it was so declared in some 17 electorates.”