LIQUOR REFORM IN NEW SOUTH WALES
The Liquor Act is to be thoroughly overhauled when, the State Parliament meets several months hence. In the meantime a number-of aspects of the matter will require, a 'g00d.,.', deal of discussion by. the Government party before agreement can be ; reached. This will notably, be so in the case of the proposed liquor referendum. The Minister of Justice (Mr. Ley), who will have charge of the measure in the House, is an ardent prohibitionist, but he has reaffirmed again and again that he will not be a party to any .proposal to wipe out hotels without compensation to the trade. He regards such an action as utterly inequitable and illogical. Boiled down, the Government still finds itself faced with the old. difficulty with regard to the liquor question—it is not in a position to find the money for the compensation upon which a majority of its members doubtless will insist. In the civ-; cumstances, therefore, even if Prohibition were carried at the next election, it might be years before it could be put into effect. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 109, 9 May 1923, Page 9
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181LIQUOR REFORM IN NEW SOUTH WALES Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 109, 9 May 1923, Page 9
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