THE LICENSING POLL.
ro THE EDITOR OF VETS PBiSSS Sir, —Have your women readers noted or realised the appeal of the Women's Christian Temperance Unionexecutive in recording their dissent from the surrender of the New Zealand Alliance as regards the Licensing Poll' Postponement Bill now before Parliament? ;Do they realise that in noting! the votes given in support of this retro-' grade measure they are.asked to help preserve a precious political right of the people, which no body: of men havo a right to bargain about, and no Government has a right to bring in without a mandate from the people. Had the Bill been a postponement of both poll >nd _ election on the score of economy this 'year it would have been a genuine andJjLonest move of an economy. Government. " This is a spurious measure brought in with the intent to destroy tho licensing poll altogether. Let the women of our country rally to defend a threatened constitution. —Yours, etc., JESSIE MACKAY. . Cashm.e.re Hills, August '2Bth, 1931.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20328, 29 August 1931, Page 9
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