LIQUOR QUESTION

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 17

LIQUOR QUESTION

THE MIDDLE ISSUE

ALLIANCE ATTITUDE OPPOSED

The Dominion executive of the Jvew Zealand Licensing Reform, Association met yesterday afternoon to review the demands made by the -New Zealand Alliance in its deputation to the Prime Minister. ■ ■ : It was decided to resist 'by every possible means. any attempt to force Parliament into disfranchising the: middle-issue voters. The following resolutions were carried:-— That a vigorous protest be immediately voiced against the at- 1 tempt of the N.Z. Alliance to dragoon Parliament into deleting: the third issue on the licensing ballot-paper, thereby disfranchising that growing body of public thought that, uses the middle issue to express its desire for practical reform of the licensing system, and numbering at the last poll over fifty-six thousand electors. That the various ■ sections opposed to Prohibition and the several branches'of the N.Z. Licensing Reform Association be called together in conference to decide on a' course of united action, and to place before the Prime Minister and Parliament the views of that substantial majority of the electors, numbering at tho last poll 355,727. votes, who have recorded, election after election, their determination to resist the imposition of Prohibition on the Dominion. The secretary was , instructed <:o convene the conferences at the earliest suitable date and to arrange for the reecption of a deputation.

Tor beiug iv possession of an unregistered firearm, Ernest Victor Owlcr was oredred to pay 10s costs by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. . '.''■'■-■