LICENSE V. NO-LICENSE.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —Allow mc to assure Mr J. S. Palmer that the no-License party have every reason to be satisfied with a 2.39 increase between 1002 and 1005, as against a decrease of .70 in the Continuance vote for that period; and, even if this rate, of progress obtains in 1008, it will mean a substantial addition to the -NoLicense area. Were we lighting this matter on the fair and democratic basis of majority rule (as we hope soon to be') on the Dominion issue, New Zealand would to-day be under No-License. The liquor traffic is carried on against the expressed will of the majority of voters in the Dominion, 51 per cent, having gone for No-License, as against 47 per cent, for Continuance. In conclusion, permit mc to say that, even were T in a hopeless minority on the matter, in view of the havoc wrought by.-the licensed liquor trade amongst the homes of the people, I would be miserably lacking in my duty to God and man dfd I fail to make my protest heard against its continuance—l am, etc., • - / CHAS. A. FRENCH.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 149, 24 June 1908, Page 8
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