THE NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 150, 30 June 1897, Page 5

THE NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE.

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Wellington, this day. lT^e first meeting of bhe nowly-elected 'Ucutiv. of the New Zoaland Alliance, a pW was made thab tho services of the w. i, \V. loitt should bo secured as lee- ** for bhe Alliance. Mr laitb replied ! a u 8 Preeßnb state of his health he mi not in justice to himself or tho '"wee accept any position which would ""we an obligation to do a specified thTiT 0f work> A resolution carried ab ft! in-ttDnual n'eetin K> fciiab tho po'icy of Alliance in promobing the legislative Z]on of tho licI UOf fcraffi° without btrj' -j? bba cx 'Kencics of party politics __<_ y mambained, was confirmed, it8 ,BPr«en- executive cf the Alliance holds B J°. ,. lon u»dcr circumstances differing toaii7 aT aQy tl,afc havo llitheriio _fa_ , ilie Proposals of the PalmeraCot,7i' - C°"V0""on lastßlonth weiothab '"JUativo Committee should be formed, rftliH m oi tho «rand Chief Templar, S1" ,1 the Nbw Zsaland Women's 6se ';'' lflaiperauco Union, and the eii 9t : n *oi ths six Drohibibion councils Wc l" 8 colony. to confer with the V !| eXßCUtivoon a" important matters, tttcoti. •_* DW:Mted thao lho Alliance Piobihhi lf *hould bQ o^cted by the '■ka 21 ?-° Uncil e£«eutivc. in the follow--4Jkiß° n.: ~By Auckland, three; three - v ,ttawkoi> Bay, and Wellington, *««____ T' °n 0; Canterbury, three; .liuJ''*?! with an additional four ScodTsL 7 c BPecia!ly elected by the fence I Pi a!u' «echabiteß, Sons of Temparance' D • w omen's Christian Tom--BdoPt6dh.fu D„ respoctlve|y- Thfi&e were cill "sb ff V n _- v °'P nial i'rohibition Coun**lSS i tbey added a Ptoviß° tuat !,H>oai»Bß_?i members be elected IbWoZ h 96tln" of tbe Alliance itself. 4ll'ancß " Cll® Pr°Po3al was carried at the taftjority TTBtin(?. fay a nine-tenths Aiiis»» »« ?- 9t* lta reor Bani E ed form tho v?* section B f h' *horefore. represents ttlb elected L X tem PQr»Bee party, aa "* the council executives',

which in their turn aro elected by delegates from all tho temporanee societies, and from such Churches as are in sympathy with the prohibition movement.