STATE CONTROL LEAGUE.
(FRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) NELSON, October 18. )$ At a meeting of the Nelson State Control League, the platform'adopted was:—(l) That the State acquit* by purohaso all interest in hotels, breweries, and stocks of liquor in tho colony;..- (3) that the importation and _ manufacture \ of liquor bo wider ' control of " ithe m«naaonwrrt of » • non-political Board, of Commissioners answerable.only to Parliament; (3) that the profits be directly devoted to counteracting the attraction* of tho bar b'v providing healthy cntertain,ment for the people; (4) that branches should be formed in the country districts of Nelson, and effort! mad© to interest tlie electors in other parts of the colony; (5) that a ladies' committee b« formed ; (6) that the suppression- of "shouting" has the full sympatic of tho 'League, and under State control it should be a breach of the regulations to "shout" - ; (7), that full value' .should be paid to publicans and others bought out under the Lands for SettlementAct,
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 12017, 19 October 1904, Page 4
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