HINT TO A GOVERNOR
OF CONSTITUTIONAL POSITION AFTER CRITICISING PROHIBITION Adelaide, August 13. # Speaking at the Licensed Victuallers Association’s annual dinner last week, tho Governor, Sir . George Bridges, in the course of a speech, is reported to have said: “I think wo all distrust tho camouflage and. corruption ot prohibition. It is foreign to our nature, although it does give us a laugh now and then.” He referred in humorous vein to tho age-long controversy as to whether wino or water is the better beverage. „ , , . ~ 'L’ho matter was referred to in the Assembly, Mr. Price asking tho Premier whether he had anything to report regarding Sir George Bridges s speech. The Premier replied that the Government had taken the earliest opportunity of intimating to Sir George Bridges tlio constitutional position as His Majesty’s representative on controversial It is understood that the Governor had no thought of hurting the susceptibilities of any section of the community, and that evidently , a meaning was road into his words which was not intended. —Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 274, 14 August 1924, Page 7
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171HINT TO A GOVERNOR Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 274, 14 August 1924, Page 7
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