LICENSING REFORM.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 180, 1 August 1925, Page 9

LICENSING REFORM.

ATTITUDE OF ALLIANCE.

THE POLITICAL ISSUE.

CANDIDATES AND THEIR VIEWS.

(Bj Telegraph.—Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, this day.

The Dominion executive of the NewZealand Alliance unanimously passed the following resolution in reply to trie resolution of the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Licensing Reform Association, passed in June:— "That the executive of the New Zealand Alliance, calls public attention to misrciirescntation in the resolution of the.New-Zealand Licensing Reform Association, published in the Press throughout the Dominion, incorrectly charging the Prohibition party with the adoption of a . vicious principle in attempting to secure control of Parliament and suggesting that the Alliance is endeavouring to secure prohibition by legislative enactment instead of by referendum. .. "That tbe Alliance has consistently fought to secure for the people the right of control of the liquor traffic while it is legalised, and the -right to abolish it by their vote. "That, in pursuance of its policy, the Alliance lias resolved to make public tlie nature of all legislative proposals affecting tho liquor traffic, "to ascertain, the attitude towards such proposals of every candidate for Parliament, and to make that attitude known to the electors concerned. - "That the Alliance recognises that many questions of far-reaching importance demand tlie attention of electors when contemplating the. selection of representatives to the Legislature, but it claims prominence among such questions for the maintenance, and perfecting of the control or abolition of the liquor traffic by the will of the people, and therefore urges prohibition supporters,' iv deciding for whom they shall vote, to place this principle before party interests. "That the Alliance is not affiliated to any political party, and that one principle it adopts in regard to legislative activity is to give adequate information to the electors, and to rely on them to, maintain -and advance their rights."