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We have to note an interesting application of the principle

of the Referendum to municipal politics at Bournemouth. The question of a Sunday service of tramways, rejected by a majority of 903 in 1906, was again submitted to a poll of the ratepayers. Out of an electorate of 12,807, 8,984 voted, with the result that a majority of 448 declared in favour of the proposal. And yet we are told that it would be quite impossible to make use of the Referendum in England- " People wouldn't understand it, and only a few cranks would vote."

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