Member of Well-known Family Passes.

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 290, 7 September 1928, Page 12

Member of Well-known Family Passes.

Son of the’ late Sir Harry Atkinson, whose death was recorded yesterday. —S. P. Andrew, photo. that “no-license” should menu “no liquor” (or local Prohibition. In that manifesto, signed by tire late Rev. J. Dawson, and the late Rev. F. W. Isitt, the Alliance said : — “To make the possession of liquor a crime, the effective detection of which would require (lie correlative right of search in every house, would be to establish an odious and inquisitorial tyranny entirely foreign to the fundamental principles of British law, and to the whole spirit of British Liberty.” “We protest against the threatened invasion of the privacy of the home by inspectors of police, against the espionage that Clause 9 (local Prohibition) would produce, against the strained relations and suspicions that will arise amongst neighbours, against the incentive to breaches of the peace on the part of decent and self-respecting citizens, which would accompany inquisitorial questionings and domiciliary visits: and, above all, against the insidious attempts Io handicap a great and genuine social reform by attaching to it an tin preeedented invasion of private rights and libertes.” Could there be a clearer or more emphatic denunciation of Prohibition? It is the conditions foreseen and emphasised in the New Zealand Alliance manifesto of 1901 that have wrecked Prohibition in the U.S.A. to-day.—l am. etc.. 11. A. ARMSTRONG, Dominion Secretary, N.Z. Licensing Reform Association. Wellington, August 28,