THREE ISSUES WANTED
LICENSED TRADE COMMENT The National Council of the Licensed Trade of New Zealand reaffirms its regret at the introduction of a Licensing Bill into Parliament, ignoring the request it has repeatedly made to the Government for the retention of the three-issue ballot paper. The Trade has consistently supported this ballot paper as being one under which all electors can record their views; and it has repeatedly pointed out that under this ballot paper the Prohibition Party is able to carry the abolition of the liquor trade if. it is ablo to securo a majority of one vote over the combined votes of the two other issues which are unquestionably cast for liquor retention. The tenure of six years proposed in the Bill is held to be too short to give an adequate return for the large expenditure in improvements to properties which are contemplated in the Bill; and the Trade is disappointed that its request for a nine-years' tenure has not been considered in the proposals in the Bill.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 13 September 1928, Page 13
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172THREE ISSUES WANTED Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 55, 13 September 1928, Page 13
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