THAT COMPACT
Mr. J. Raw, general secretary of the National Council of the Licensed Trade, writes again in reply to the socretary of the New Zealand Alliance on the question of the licensing compact. Mr. Raw states that the Alliance secretary, liko the provorbial dog chasing his tail, "argues in an interminable circle," and ho reiterates that "The Ministcr-in-Charge of the 1918 Licensing Legislation, the Right Hon. Sir Francis Dillon Bell, mado himself a party to the compact by moving the adoption of the Bill containing, tho throe-issue ballot paper. Mr. Murray would reply 'Yes' as Leader of the Upper House. Quite sol Ho could have spoken and voted against tho three-issue ballot paper; instoad, he gave it his support and voted for it. The New Zealand Alliance, through the Revs. R. S. Gray and John Dawson, i acceded to the inclusion of the three- j issue ballot paper in that Bill, and Mr. A. R. Atkinson became a party to it also. They all approved of that Bill." Their alleged subsequent categorical denial is, the correspondent asserts, a mere fiction perpetuated by Mr. Murray. 0 • . [This correspondence is now closed. —Ed.]
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 74, 24 September 1927, Page 18
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192THAT COMPACT Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 74, 24 September 1927, Page 18
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