THE THREE-FIFTHS MAJORITY.
{VZZSS ASSOCIATION TZLKfIBAU.) "", "WELLINGTON, December 8. The New Zealand .Alliance-Executive to-night resolved:—"That in tho opinion, of th© Executive of th© New _.t.-a.and'Alliance, the.time has come for .emphasising- and forcing" th© reit-terated-protests of th© No-hcense party agajpst th© three-filths , majority • required for ihe carrying of" Nc-liconse and National Prohibition, as unjust, undemocratic and intolerable. That the Executive re-affirms tho demand of th© party for the application to all the issues or- tho bedrock democratic principle of majority rule, and that it considers that no candidate at th© second ballot- to be decided next week is- deserving of th© support of ill© party, which polled moro than- 260,000 votes on Thursday, who will ins_.H upon the retention of the oppressive -handicap of th© threo-fif .ha majority."'- -
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14222, 9 December 1911, Page 10
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