Effect of Striking Out the Top Line Only.

The effect of striking out only the top line on the voting paper will be as follows:—You will be counted to have voted for the two thing in the two lines which you have left untouched, so that if there are not enough votes for the better thing of the two (" that no licenses be granted in the district") there may still be a chance that there will be votes enough for the other thing ("that the number of licenses in the district be reduced"), either of which will be better than the continuance of the existing number of licenses in the district.

If three-fifths of those who poll vote that no licenses be granted in the district, that will be carried and come into force, even though there may be a larger number of votes for the continuance or the reduction of the licenses existing in the district. But if less than three-fifths of the votes are for no license in the district, then, if there is a bare majority of votes for a reduction of the number of licenses in the district that will be carried.

If there is only one candidate for parliament, and, therefore, no parliamentary contest, there will still be a poll taken about licenses, but it will go for nothing unless half on the roll vote.

If it be carried that no licenses be granted in the district, that will take effect on the first day of July, 1897, when the existing licenses expire, thus giving the local [unclear: for] sellers over six months' notice to [unclear: casesing]. If it is only a reduction of licenses the district which is carried, them number of the several kinds of licenses have to be reduced by any number [unclear: for] twentieth to a quarter of them, at the [unclear: tre] cretion of a licensing committee of persons to be elected in the following [unclear: date] of March, with the Stipendary [unclear: Mage] as chairman. So that the amount of deduction will depend on the sort of [unclear: co]mittee which you then elect. But in case if the licenses in the district [unclear: of] exceed ten the committee will be [unclear: being] reduce them by at least one; if they [unclear: are] exceed thirty, by at least two; and [unclear: it] do exceed thirty, by at least three.

If it is carried that no licenses be [unclear: gree] in the district, then no licenses [unclear: of] description will be lawful there in [unclear: eryrf] licensing committee is to be [unclear: of] Club charters will still be lawful [unclear: for] these are granted by the Colonial [unclear: see] If in any district where it is [unclear: carring] licenses are to be granted the people [unclear: for] the following March to elect a to [unclear: com] then a Stipendary Magistrate will [unclear: tru]stead of a committee. Where it is[unclear: acc] that no licensee he granted in the [unclear: new] entirely new and greatly improved visions for enforcing the law will [unclear: end] operation which will very quickly[unclear: of] braving of the law such as ex-[unclear: licences] others have been attempting in the [unclear: last] district; so that what has been [unclear: know] page 27 in the past is no indication at all of how things will be in the future under a law which will necessarily make the enforcement of Prohibition much more effective.

It is further enacted as follows :—"The provisions of section 33 shall not apply to clubs."

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