HUTT LICENSING POLL.
MAGiSTKMAL IXQUIKY. (Press Association.] WELLINGTON, Jan. 21. The Mutt local option pull inquiry was continued to-day. when the evidence for the defence included that of J. R. M'otl)os, returning officer. He denied that be was interested in the result of tlio poll more one wav than another. lie denied appointing trade partisans as officials. He believed that of the 24 deputies, 16 were abstainers. It was a gross misstatement to say he allowed liquor in the main booth during the count. The placing of 22 no-license votes in the continuance bundle must have been purely accidental. During cross, examination, be denied entirely the suggestions made against his conduct of tli.c poll during the hearing of the ease. He was licensee of an hotel 18 years ago. but- since then bad had im interest in hotels.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2406, 22 January 1909, Page 5
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138HUTT LICENSING POLL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2406, 22 January 1909, Page 5
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