LIQUOR IN THE KING COUNTRY

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 270, 14 November 1910, Page 6

LIQUOR IN THE KING COUNTRY

MR. JENNINGS' PROPOSAL. AND THE "CARPET BAG" INCIDENT. (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. Some feeling hae been shown in. regard to Friday's debate anent the granting of Europeans in the King Country the right to vote on licensing issues, and more particularly with reference to the passage-at-arms between Mr. Poole and! Mr. Jennings. The member for Taumarunui this morning received the following telegram:—"The Auckland City Prohibition League protests against your insult to City West electors. — secretary."

■Mr. Jennings replied as follows: — "Your league 13 under a misapprehension. I know a number of City West electors personally, who are friends of a lffctime, and therefore I would not insult them. What I did resent was 'the inuendo by Mr. Poole ye my motive in bringing the amending clauses forward on behalf of my constituents at their repeated requests by petition, meetings, etc"

Amongst many congratulatory telegrams received by Mr. Tfennings was one from Mr. George Higgins, Auckland: "Good, my lord; I admire a man with moral courage." Also one from Mr. A. L. D. Fraser, ex-M.P., ac follows: —"You deseTve the thanks of honest democrats, not fche spirrions, on your appeal for the voice of the people on license in King Country. The salient point is that the prohibition of the sale of land and the sale of liquor in the Rohe Potae was simultaneous. The Crown first broke the former, and by so doing introduced Europeans into ifche restricted area. On this social-political question they are disfranchised. In the name of democracy, Why? Again, are there not licensed houses within this sacred but artificial Iboundary ?"