PROHIBITION PURE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 484, 17 April 1909, Page 5

PROHIBITION PURE.

° , LIQUOR'S CHALLENGE. . 18 DEMAND FOR' A CLEAR-OtJT ISSUE. Ini Tiriiottirn— phesi isso(iution-coi'vtuout.> e ' ' Sydney, April 16. d At the Licensed Victuallers' Association t Conference tho president said the Liquor j Party wanted a cloar-cut issue. Ho challonged tho Temperance Party on the issue of prohibition, pure and simple, or continuation of license. ._ ' The prosidoufc of tho Now South Wales j| Alliance expresses his willingness to accept 3- tho challengo, Ho is confident that No--16 License or prohibition for tho wholo Stato will 0 bo carried at no very distant date. ° [Tho point of the etatement made by the * Licensed' Victuallers' president lies in tho ■' faot that the reduction issue has proved a l" very troublesomo one to the liquor party in ."• New South'Wales,'and they want to get rid of it. At the looal option poll taken in 1907, ,' when the electors voted for License, Noj* License, or Keduetion, the No-License vote was 1 ineffective, but the' reduction vote- resulted, : or will result, in tho closing of 1 the'bars of ;" nearly three hundred hotels, The reduction veto " has & time-limit attaohod to it, but this is " not the same in "all cases, and while some of V, tho hotels are losing their licenses now, others Y have still some time to run.] ~ '.'..