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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 149, 27 June 1925, Page 7

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Beading in "The Post" the'eontrovevsy 'between tb,e Licensing Reform Association (late Moderate League), and the New Zealand Alliance, perhaps a lew remarks- may be- permitted from one who resents the denial of a privilege. If the Moderate League, under its new title, is genuinely out to advocate reforms in the liquor trade, a great opportunity exists to materially increase its membership from the ranks of a long-suffering .public that has no confidence" in the organisation of the liquor ,trade constituted as "it" is."" ' • ' I suggest that the president of the" L.B.A. call a a. jrablic meeting without delay, and at tliis meeting give the assurance that hi? organisation is entirely free from, influences which :a're the direct cause to-day 'of existing conditions' in the trade, and .- which, unless | curbed will diminish the vote for continuance. .

The one and only channel whereby reforms long overdue can be introduced before the next poll, is in Parliament during the current, session, and nowhere else. «

Make the membership fee of the L.R.A. ■ a nominal siim and hundreds will join up, thus the reforms advocated will represent the voice of all moderate classes of the community. If by chance Prohibition is carried (and it is quite possible) it will not be entirely, duo to the activities of the Prohibition Party, but to a great extent )due to the conditions in the trade today which have grown from bad to worse.—l am, etc., ' " MODERATE, 26th June.i