NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 178, 22 April 1908, Page 9

NEW ZEALAND ALLIANCE.

TEE KIING COL'MRY AND THE LIQUOR r IRAFriC :7-rThc. executive of. ilia "Now Zealand Alliance '' •' ■ met yesterday 'afternoon. .A sub-conimitteo -:' - v was liustructed-' to '.'/w-ith . Miss : ■ .Hughes; with a. ,riew .to ; :securing hers'ser- >v ■vioesi' ■ for -some months'' before,.* ;•'• .thci, ' m". :: V.: / I, :.A'llettefe'was receivjcd,: dram'ng ; attention tto !'tlio,;f£ct ; that 1 women- voters;'. !Wub- : Mectedi:to considerable iricoih'enieiico at, tip-\.... ..country-', booths, by; men being, allowed to •- many.-; .women ir-:., being detaiiiedrfroih • voting 'tlicrciiS*.- frit'.,n ; as ;*• hdeterrcincd, Ahafr the attention of Mr. Maiib- ' ' ..field,: llegistrar of ,Electors,, bo.drawn totho■ IliaUpr. - : : I : t'j.wao-!;res6lv(id. 'to' recornuiond that tlio ..'. I annual moetiiig of the New..Zealand- Allianco . . | .aiid -CoJouial 'NorLiceiiße Council, : to;,be .held , in- Wellington; ,be opened on - Juno 10 or 17, -! as, may -lie most. convenient to residents.eJspHherej iand that extensive use"be mada ofiibo holiday on June 3, by. holiday' con- • ventions ol ■ "vvoikols in electorates, or groups ■ of - doctorates,. thus ombracing an opportu- • ; iiity .'for 'consultation with worKers who. niayi^; i. be ...unable, to attend provincial councils. ;• v A resolution of sympathy:with Mr.' E. W. ■ Pethorick in his serious illness ivns carried .unanimously, as were resolutions rof • welcome to RevSi .J. Serpell and C. A. Sims, • • who. have recently come to reside m Wei- - .- lingtonV ;• ; . ...-'y.:;' - A letter .was received from-'Sir-Robert." - ..Stout,' "who had-been advised that 'a ; : meut was being' circulated in the - King-'"' ". Country that the Chief Wnhanui—who- con- • sonted that the King Country should bo ' : open, to the pakehas on condition that no' '' liquof .was admitted—did so in order to con-' •' • servo his own gam from tho illicit silo of liquor. Sir Robert ..Stout' wrote:—-

"It is. absiird; to suggest that the prohibition of'the sale of liquor in the Kin" Country lmd anything to do' with "Wahamu personally,. or. )vas done to enable him to spll liquor without a license.' Wahanui was' : only gii'ingi expression, as a chief is' accustomed to do,: to ,the. strong, feclinr of liia tribe;.;wheu' .'and'other. chiefs.joiuM with him asked that .the King Country should bo closed -to liquor. You may : m ake wliat- uso' ot tliis statement you pleasej as I know all the, factß at : the time, and others'who' Iks side myself took .part, in , making the Holm Pot.ae, closfid'to tho sale of liquor are dead,— Yours:truly,-'llol)ert : Stout,' : ' '