SIR JOHAN FINDLAY AND SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3118, 23 June 1917, Page 6

SIR JOHAN FINDLAY AND SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING

the;hours for the selling of liquor/* SI-* 6 "?!. 4 ? **"* been overcome by thai .petition that was presented to him in fav;OTjr.of six oQlock closing, and to have wholly lost his perspective of thesitua•.£on,;in vie*, of.tho.fact that the petition*; contained "over three thousand Dames—a few hundred more than the votes, he secured" at his election 'in March ?f ™esucoeesor;to',the late Hon. Dr li t- ?-V M ajf I-venture to remind him that :: he je. going direotly in opposition to •the expressed./wishes of. the majority of the electors of Hawke's Bay at the gen,eral.j election- of .1914," when, tho war being, still, on; thoy. signified by 4748 votes to S2pO,.that;the,;existing contracts be-tween-the State and; hotel licensees should be maintained..:and ■ respected. It is impossible to,say how many of the 4748 eleotors who then voted for" "Continu*H?| ,J _ jecorded. their.votes in Sir John Findlny's-favour ■ at- tho recent by-elec-tion, when the hon. gentlemai only polled :2618 votes iis against the 4217 votes .polled by the-late;.member. Dr. M'Nab, whose vote last year was given affainst 6ix o'clock closing. It is Tinforhmate Sir John should thus early in ris career as jv member of the ff onso of Representatives have showii- himself lacking in a eenee of true proportion.—l am. etc., •... MODERATE.