THE NO-LICENSE CAUSE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 665, 16 November 1909, Page 5

THE NO-LICENSE CAUSE.

f- : > W^ : jiOREEirBNT. : : ~ : -i ; ;_.'A largo ■meeting'! the"; auspices ' of the ?•, W-Licefls^pajty;was ; held at Petone last night, : -.. : tlw,:-Ber r !T.i presiding, The :.'Woense, prclieStriVpliyed eeleotlbns during tha ;,; evening. -/v:?• V'H;',^'^'''^vS■■■:":: : -• .:;.'''.'■■"!: ■;:'■'-■:..-: f./'■ In tipeitltig; thf .|toree.fiftts:obsbqoton had gone.for.good, and' 'the , partyvwould,not haVe■ to .work under t uch been tho case in ,> ; the; past.v Dominion option had also" been Jone that they would ■ ; get,it, ./.Thoy-would tfien^have'.the satisfaction :, of .-.knowing, vthftt Jn. xaating'; their votes they l:,irere.,.votiiig'if6r i; No-License 1 y Last yearM.hov ;,;W&re; only,; 63p votes Sshott •■ *:Dominiou;ef;thois3 : ,pej ceni:y^:■*; : ■■ ■ should;awee/;tlw polh = -^ B *?^' O|Q * '-xtefy : ' Poriinion;. beAr,): Some-pepple--might-env ; in.-irtfarewe te ;:' concessions .-to the they has :->.»'-W»e.. : ,Bom«i-.-.cQnee(i3loi»g.->.;,-Therefirere several .■'^SS?. Ue »neii. of ;the .Actut the: licensing spoils speaker proceeded to-outline. Before v sitting - down, Mr;'; Williams apologised for the '■' .unavoidable absence.of Uii "J.vß. line, M P ' v: fl^^SS. ; Malcqlm ) M.P.^wh6waa::greeted with :>cheers,-,said,that: i the.best .way"for them to /;' Bucceed.was.to.toust their- lekdorsV .He-.ha? not ,v-beer consulted-in regard to the,recent, agree'"■•""^iteV ftlt- It jie duty'to fall into line ■' with- thevleadewl;pf.',the/;pat{y. v He then gave ; : Vβ vsketch.; '.effects^of■ SoVLiceU VW* 1 ■^^^iA^% t; l h4^V WJelning , electoratesvhad ' 16 *,N,0-iiotihte,Taad - they BacTnow in Clttha • ."Mled. omldren; to look ;af tot. , '■,•■: -.■-.■ :> ' :: *£t : &7- : A h .BeffdnWdwdt;; largely on the agreement,ithe.toaa propose, of *wikiT had ..;..:He;;noted--thatft>Chrtotchuroh 'piper had exv "ie,Opini(^.«i4t:by;::the^g%ttienl the -tPMers.Jhad.dug-their.own-CTaye.. :They:v(tho ; had beenpjisdwith bmnions :staanch: supporters,; of' NoJLieease)'.eifcreesing -;■-ORlypns not flatteririjf: to- the.members,oi the :> alliance.;' He • , s%ested.,that ,they should re;serye their; judgmwf,«iitil /the Bilf'was in theiT and • i t»af;th , eif. shnifldthetf. 'consldeF it.' "■^^?S l^ a, |. a :«?^ ,l t that the party that hnd ' stride and brbttght i •■:v.'%r? e ?* ;^- t ? i *W-' ,leiß|,e '' yT W : 'liad'.noti ?Wf.W >n;onei:iota;from;:the'demand that was i ;nitiU the • iterra.of a; Bill r »tan r ding to .the name of -Mr. I :,;Wfwison^iThcy/hlid^ot^ftbatcd;their ardour,, ■i-'rf^ 1 i^^nolided^tl»>the eiflging

11 ' 1,. . i. Auckland, November 15. ' At a pilblto meeting qf members' of Timber , - ?* j olIowin ? resolution, moved ?y M r -, »t Richardson, and seconded by Mr, J. Wnlsb, vrae carmd.-'That thla meeting K?wH B #i WMt the "I , "!" 04 rcoenfcl y "ado v h 7 , % n . o 'Par'r by the officials of the prohibition of the lmnor traffic "is a notional y? \T' F$ the .policy of tie ntoV6ment MtU "f di Tedby * smn!l «'"V» ot Boetian of the party, but by a colonial conWrttion representing all sections of the peopl«. Further, It affinni, that *o legislation will be aatisfaotoiy that does not make the jesnes .of both local jlnd Dominion option at no longer an interval afterwards than at present obtains, a,td it appeal to the New Zealand Alliance to make it alear to tho Government and Parl amont that no compromise of the just tighls of the people in this respect will be accepted, by t£e No-Licens* party. ■ '