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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 977, 26 November 1908, Page 9

The total number of voters whose votes were recorded at the poll was 6430, and as the number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal that no licenses be granted in the district is not less than three-fifths of the total number of voters as aforesaid, 1 hereby declare such proposal to be carried. Dated at Aucklad this twenty-third day of November, 1908. BENJ. GILMER, Returning Officer, DECLARATION OF RESULT OF POLL FOR THE ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF EDEN. I, BENJAMIN GILMER, Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Eden, do hereby declare the result of the Poll taken on the 17th day of November, 1908, for the Election of a Member of Parliament for the said district to be as follows:— Votes Candidates. polled. BOLLARD, JOHN 4315 SHACKELFORD, JOHN WISDOM 2151 Total number of valid votes polled 6466 Number of votes rejected as informal 88 I therefore declare the said JOHN BOLLARD to be elected. Dated at Auckland this 23rd day of November, 1908. BENJ. GILMER, Returning Officer. DECLARATION OF RESULT OF POLL AND NOTIFICATION OF SECOND BALLOT. I, JOHN CROOM WEBSTER, Returning Officer of the Electoral District of Waitemata, do hereby declare the result of the Poll taken on the seventeenth day of November, 1908, for the Election of a Member of the House of Representatives for the said district to be as follows: — Votes Candidates. polled. 2 NAPIER, WILLIAM JOSEPH 2038 1 PHILLIPPS, LEONARD RICHARD 2947 4 WAKE, THEOPHILUS 273 3 WILDING', HENRY WAKEFORD 647 Total number of valid votes polled 5932 Absolute majority required .. 39 Number of votes rejected as informal 101 And I further declare that, as no Candidate has received an Absolute Majority of votes, a Second Ballot will be taken on TUESDAY, the 24th day of November, 1908, between nine a.m. and seven p.m. Dated at Devonport, this 21st day of November, 1908. J. C. WEBSTER, Returning Officer, LICENSING POLL, 1908. DECLARATION OF LICENSING POLL IN THE DISTRICT. LICENSING DISTRICT OF WAITEMATA. In pursuance of Section 25 of “ The Licensing Act, 1908,’ I hereby give Public Notice of the result of the Local Option Poll taken under the provisions of the said Act. NUMBER OF VOTES RECORDED. That, the number of licenses existing in the district continue 2459 That the number of licenses existing in the district be reduced 2966 That no licenses be granted in the district 3365 The total number of Voters whose votes were recorded at the poll was 5921; and, as the number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal that the existing number of licenses in the district be reduced, is an absolute majority of the total number of Voters as aforesaid, I hereby declare such proposal to be carried. Dated at Devonport, this 24th day of November, 1908. J. 0. WEBSTER, Returning Officer.