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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 144, 16 December 1919, Page 2

(Copy.) < 200, Willis-street, Wellington, ' 15th December, 1919. Rev, R. S. Gray, Walling ton. DEAR Sir,—l am instructed by the Council of the N.Z. Branch of the B.M.A. to write to you as follows:— At a meeting of Council, held on 12th December, it was resolved unanimously that any inquirers should be informed that the results of the Referendum on the Alcohol question will not be published; that members of Council themselves do not know the results, and that tho statement made by the Rev. Mr. Gray, that the results show a majority in favour of Prohibition, is purely an assumption. Yours faithfully, (Sgd.) E, W GIESEN. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND PROHIBITION. THE FOLLOWING CORRESPONDENCE SPEAKS FOR ITSELF :- 16th 'December, 1919. Dr. Giesen, Chairman of the Council, British Medical Association, Wellington. Dear Sir,—l beg to acknowledge receipt of yours dated 15th inst., concerning tho Referendum on Prohibition. I desire to call your attention to the report in,the N.Z. Medical Journal of October, in which it is stated on Page 270: "The votes had been counted and the results were now available." , It is quite clear, therefore, that your statement that "members of tho Council themselves do not know the results,'/ is accurate only in the sense that all the members of the Council do not know the results. The subsequent action of members of the Council known to be interested in tho Liquor Traffic, in opposing tho publication, proves that the result was certainly known to them. Why, elsfc, did they threaten to leave the Association if the results were published ? . You say that my statement,., "that the results show a majority in favour of Prohibition" is purely an assumption. You are careful to say that it is untrue. You are unaware, of course, that very many assumptions are absolutely according to fact.' I am prepared to stand by the published statements which I have made, •which the scrutineers appointed must know is absolutely accurate, and I challenge the Medical Association to disprove the fact that the vote is overwhelmingly, in favour of Prohibition. This is known in quite a number of the divisional sections of the Association, and, indeed, is a matter of common knowledge, and the action of tho Medical Association in allowing itself to be practically coerced by a majority representing 50 dishonourable a Trade as the Liquor Trade, is exceedingly difficult to understand. Yours sincerely, R, S. GRAY, Dominion Organiser. Footnote.—As indicating tije attitude of one considerable section of the Association, the following telegram has just beereceived:— -_„.._ i Chnstchurch, 15th December, 1919. "Men's meeting to-night crowded, enthusiastic, fourteen doctors on platform, seven spoke, apologies from ten others." FOR SUITABLE XMAS PRESENTS AT SUITABLE PRICES GO TO NORMAN E. 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