THE LIQUOR QUESTION AND A DISSOLUTION.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18013, 4 March 1924, Page 9

THE LIQUOR QUESTION AND A DISSOLUTION.

TO TOP. f.tvhtik OF "TUT, rnr.SS." Sir,—Although the report of my remarks at the Methodist Conference on Friday night was neither complete nor quite correct, yet T am very pleased to have the assurance of Mr 0. Speight, according to your paper this morning, that neither lie nor the trade has any knowledge that the liquor party is working to secure a dissolution of Parliament this year. In that ease we should not have a dissolution until next year, when the people will get their rightful vote on the liquor question, for, as I then said, the' "liquor partyis the only party that would benefit by having a poll this year." I gave it as my opinion that the trade would rather spend thousands of pounds in securing a Parliamentary poll this year without a licensing poll than have to fa.ee a licensing poll next year. I think it well, however, that all lovers of fair play should keep wide awake, lest Mr 0. Speight or his friends in the trade should change their minds before next session of Parliament is over, and seek a dissolution as a means of protection for themselves.—Yours, etc., JOHN DAWSON, General Secretary, N.Z. Alliance for the Abolition of the Liquor Traffic. Christchurch, March 3rd, 1924.