REPORT DISCUSSED
"SEVEN-EIGHTHS OF PEOPLE
OPPOSED TO TRADE."
As soon as. the report had been read, Mr. L. M. Isitt rose quickly to his feet and remarked on the fact that the recommendation of the Efficiency Board fully bore out the ideas of those who had ouda the subject a life study and had come to be classed as -'wowsers." Not enly that, but these business men recommended -that the expense probably of :nil lions of pounds the Government should pay for the .extinction of the trade which was supposed to have been such a great national benefit. ' "We have Eeven-eighths of the-people behind, us in opposition to. the trade, he said, ,"and I think that; after the people have read that report' there will be no one in favour of the (trade outside of lunatic asylums." (Laughter.) ... ... •'/■.■ Mr. A. S. Malcolm strongly tirged that the -public should not be deprived of the triennial licensing poll. Least uf all at this time were the people preparedto forego that right. The report was ordered to be printed.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1917, Page 3
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176REPORT DISCUSSED Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 27, 1 August 1917, Page 3
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