HUTT LICENSING POLL.
HEARING OF PETITION
(.Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, Jan, 18. The Hutt local option poll enquiry -,vas continued to-day. Air. Atkinson, for the petitioners, applied to have two more names added to the list of those alleged to be improperly on the roll.
Mr. Skerrett objected, and the objection was upheld,
After two witnesses had be< u called to close the no-license party's case, Mr. Skerrett continued his address. He stated that the presence :>f 24 nolicense votes in the continuance bundle was capable of an lion st explanation. He ridiculed the idea that a' glass of beer with a bun J 9 of officials or anyone else would affect the oell. There was no proof that the barrel of beer in the ro. m at the Hutt Town Hail was connected with the action of the trade.
Mr. Atkinson, in reply, contended that where the margin was so narrow the possibility of the poll being affected had to be more closely scrutinised. He asked, was the people’s poll not to be protected from the results of negligence or misadventure ‘i
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2403, 19 January 1909, Page 5
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182HUTT LICENSING POLL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2403, 19 January 1909, Page 5
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