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Evening Star, Issue 19585, 17 June 1927, Page 12

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BIG fire AT MONTREAL. OTTaTPA, dune IB.—Damage estimated at millions of dollars was doi'm'hy a fire which destroyed the Customs warehouse -at Montreal. ALLIANCE DEPUTATION. A deputation from the New Zealand Alliance, 200 strong, waited mi Mr Coates to-day in regard tc the Licensing .15,11. The speakers were Mr C. Todd (president), Mr KdmonH (general secretary), and Mrs T. IT Taylor (dominion president of the*. W.C.'1.1.). All aspects of the Alliance’s case were fully presented, hut the chid requests were nn amendment of the• law to provide for a two-issue ballot paper, and the diminution of the proposal in last year’s-. Hill to extend the time between polls. , , , . . - r ,. n ~ . Mr Contes gave an undertaking to bring down a Hill this session, hilt e-xpreksod- the opinion that the'’ Bill brought down last year did not have a fair run, because of the'attitude adopted by_the Alliance. It iwi’s ,'iover looked i-n from the point .of view ol improving the trade it self. The proposals in the Bill affected every business, including Urn trade.'•■The' Bill seemed nobody’s child, and was trounced. Had Parliam'eM had an opportunity to consider the Bill it would .have been I mind that 'iihore was valuable machinery for bringing about- relornis in the trade ©specially retail. In due course ho would reply to the requests made, by presenting a- Bill to Parliament, which he hoped would give the i Legislature the opportunity to express its views on the various questions in the niimJs of the people to-day.-—Wellington message. BOOKMAKING ALLEGED. . David Thomas Pearson, who was charged at the City Police Court to-day with carrying on the occupation of a bookmaker, was committed to the Snpiome Court lor trial, bail being allowed in soil' of iCsOIH and one surety of £2OO THE STOCK EXCHANGE,, Sales on ’Change - this afternoon:—Kaiapoi Woollen (erd.), 10s 6d; Kawavku 2s. Reported .safe.: Bank of New Zealand, 60s 9d.